I remember coming to the Sea Lion caves as a young girl every summer. They are located on a very sharp corner on highway 101 atop a HUGE cliff overlooking the ocean! There are lots of great places to look over, you can see sea lions in the water as well and down on the rocks. There is a nice little gift shop and you can pay to ride an elevator down into the sea lion cave and see them upclose! it is SO loud in there, lots of noisy sea lions. Very damp and cold too, so wear a jacket! Definately worth a trip to the bottom, they will even tell you if there are sea lions in the caves at that particular time.
My husband and I tool our kids there last summer and they loved it as much as I remember as a child!
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