Cuz life just floats by.
Sea Otters live in close communities called rafts. Can you see the babies floating on their mamas? Hint: they are the brown fuzzy bumps with little faces resting on their mama’s bellies? (CLick to enlarge for better optics).
Like all communities with time on their hands, gossip can be a problem.
“If you say this one more time, Edna, I swear, I will cover my ears!”
A new human like me, is easily noticed.
“Who are you odd human, and why are you staring at me?”
Discussing the merits of tonight’s seafood dining options, Earle makes the best suggestion.
Otter newlyweds with their new pup float happily together.
Single mom’s seem quite content on their own.
While bachelor & bachelorette otters can float anywhere they want and may be the happiest otters of all.
Eventually babies get fed up with resting on top of mom, and just float off on their own looking for adventure.
Rarely, an otter just can’t keep going along lazily with the group, he has to break out, be an individual, kick his web-footed heels to the sky!
Cheers to you from the happily floating (and kicking) Morro Bay Sea Otters in California~
Note: Sea Otters were nearly hunted to extinction in the 1800’s for their fur. Populations are slowly recovering, but otters are still an endangered species and are threatened by fish net entanglement, oil spills, and boat strikes.
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The way they swim about is so cute 😀
They are the cutest creatures ever!
Ya! 😀
<3
What a great set of cute images !!
They tip the scales on cuteness factor!
They do !!
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So sweet. The photos remind me of a movie I watched as a kid – Ring of Bright Water. It was too sad! Good to see happy otters!
I read the book, watched the movie, and wanted a pet otter as a kid!
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Just beautiful!
Thank you Barb!
Oh this post made me so HAPPY. I love otters one of the few mammals that are tool using. At least the sea otters are. THANX Cindy GREAT post. ~~dru~~
They certainly do and I am glad you love them too!
I love Otters in the virtual world I was a tiny otter avatar for awhile, and made clothes for the otter and other animals that the designer/builder made. We were otterly divine in our fancy outfits and hairdos.. LOL… horror of horros, it was so otterly fun. Have you by chance every gotten close enough to one to feel their fur? Thanks for being such an otterly creative pal…=^_^=
What otterly lovely comments, you otten’t have been so kind! I have never touched an otter. Now, I want too!! I would love to see your avatar!
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OK will try to dig up a picture, my last animal from that series was a meerkat =^_^=
Enticing images!✌👍
So happy you enjoyed them!
awww Those otters and the babies are so cute! 🙂
They are off the charts in fuzzy-cuteness aren’t they!
Love that play on words in the titel! And I love the “Ottahs”, too. Aren’t they ever so cute?
I am so sorry I missed this comment. It was in my wordpress spam filter. Several of your comments were. Your comment is very thoughtful and most appreciated! Thank you & cheers too!
I wanna be an ottah now and watch life floating by. I wanna lie on moms belly forever. I wanna venture of on my daring own and wave to the human with the camera: Hey Cindy! You here? Come and float with us. Float with us in Morro bay, float into eternity.
Yes. This is the life I think we otta have! Just like ‘The Incredible Mr Limpit.’
Maybe if we wish on it hard, and fall in Morro Bay, we will become an otter and can float our life away!
Okay, otters deserve more respect! Hmm, seem to me a lot more of the animal kingdom deserves respect.
Yet, trump gets respect.
I love animals.
I like this idea very much! Let’s just capitalize all animals names, and use lower case for one massively incompetent president!
YEAH! Let’s go girlfriend! :star:
And here’s a cheer..,YAY for the Polar Bears!!!! How do you feel about that mr. rump? Oops…mr. trump.
Polar bears are more civilized than the donald~
They are a lot cuter, too…. and have better fur. 😀
Nothing beats floating on water. A good book, sunglasses, and a drink, while floating down the stream in an inner tube. Oh, wait we were talking about otters 🙂
Well, we otta be taking about ottahs, but this imagery has me thinking seriously about inner-tubes and pina-coladas!
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Love these sea otters. They are fabulous living the life of Riley.
Made me think of the old TV SHOW Wild Kingdom with Marlon Perkins.
They otter be in pictures! LOL!
I never missed a show as a kid and I was very seriously in love with Marlin’s assistant, Stan Brock. Remember him? Stan the Man!
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Oh yeah! Handsome! So many reasons to love the show! ♡♡☆☆
I wish you had hollered – I would have joined you (Morro Bay is home 🙂 )
It is such a lovely place! I wish I had known. I would have hollered. We spend two days there watching the otters, sea lions and brown pelicans!
I just adore otters and have blogged about them often. I believe I have spied some sea otters nearby as I live close to a creek that feeds into a river. Have tried to catch a photo, but no luck yet. Thank you for these pics, they are precious!
They are amazing, playful, beautiful little animals. The only time I have seen river otters they have been moving FAST so I can relate to the challenge!
So cute Cindy! They really do appear to be enjoying themselves, don’t they?
They have a decidedly low stress approach to life, smart little cuties!
So cute. Saw a lot of them in Alaska. They’re bigger than people think.
If you saw big otters in the ocean in Alaska they were probably Giant Sea Otters which can often be seen floating on the ice. I have seen them also in Alaska and have some photos. They are very big. These sea otters are much smaller, about the size of a cat. But seeing any otter anywhere is a privilege and joy since they tend to be elusive and are endangered.
They must have been. I swear they were as big as I am.
Yes, they are impressive creatures!
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Otters living the dream! This bunch seems to be quite content…could it be the weather?
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They are have a don’t sweat it approach to life which I admire greatly! Thank you for supporting these endangered and magical creatures my friend & cheers to you~
Otters always have the funniest expressions – their faces make me smile!
The pups are too cute…
🙂
They are overload of CF (cuteness factor!)
They’re adorable critters! And apparently both playful and curious too. Lovely photos Cindy!
So happy you enjoyed the otters Brad! They are pretty hard to resist~
Absolutely! They’re adorable. 🙂
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They are so cute. I see them once in awhile walking on the causeway in my town. The causeway borders the sea but there is a big inlet. The otters can be quite comical.
So cute and like the way babies put their heads on their moms floating together. That is just so lovely cute.
Yes it would be.
Yes, they are so fun to watch and quite playful!
It is, they hug each other all the time!
Yes they are
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I love otters but who doesn’t?
Only a black heart could fail to love an otter!
Totally! How did you get the water so blue?
Enhanced it a bit to bring up the contrast otherwise the otters tended to look like brown mops!
Good one! Brown mops!
Oh, my goodness!! Thank you for this super dose of cute! I really need it. <3 It's so sad that they're still endangered. :-/ We humans can cause so much harm.
We certainly can, but the good news is they are doing much better now thanks to the incredible efforts of The Monterey Bay Aquarium and people who look out for them~ <3
They otter be very careful when floating around in the water. 🙂
Yes! These guys were floating close to land in a harbor. This is an advantage because if a shark were to go after an individual in the raft community, the others can escape to land. Otters can of course come to ground, sharks and orcas who prey on otters cannot do this.
Another one of those protective instincts they have to survive that God has blessed them with. 🙂
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Cindy were you floating in the water with them? 😛 These photos are so amazingly up close, I think they’re a great approximation to what it must be like to be hanging out with the otters! Thank you for this. So wonderful that we have the California coast!
The California coast is back to being full of so much of the wildlife that was absent much of my life due to the protective effects of The Marine Mammal Protection Act. Mammals that were hunted off the sea and shore are back on in numbers that I never saw in my childhood. I never saw an otter in the ocean as a kid even though I was born and raised by and on the sea and otters were native where I lived. Thank you Monterey Bay Aquarium for bringing them back to us!
Wonderful photos, Cindy. I love these guys! How long was your lens?
I used two cameras interchangeably with the otters, both Sony’s, the RX10 and the HX400. The RX is crisper with group shots and landscapes, so the groups were taken with this camera. The HX400 has 1200mm equivalent zoom and is better for all types of magnification, both macro and zoom. All the individual shots were taken at somewhere around 600mm zoom give or take.
I have a Canon bridge camera that I haven’t used for a few years. I’m going to pull it out again!
Look forward to seeing your results!
Such beautiful inquisitive animals.
xxx Massive Hugs Cindy xxx
Yes and they appear to kinda like people!
These are great captures
Ah, honored! Thank you & cheers to you~
My crazy animal loving son would love this .. Very cute pic and such hilirious notes 🙂
Well I hope you show these to your son. If he loves animals he is far less crazy than peope who don’t! 🙂 <3
gorgeous pics Cindy, such a beautiful and cute animal
They are all these things and more! I am so happy they are back on the California Coastline!
so wonderful
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I would love a pond of otters, but my cat would lose his mind. They are so sweet, I think they are so much fun!
Oh too funny. I wonder what you kitty-kat would do with a raft of otters! My cat made friends with local skunks so anything is possible!
I have always loved otters! They have so much personality and sweetness, and are so much fun to watch. Great pictures, Cindy. Thank you!
Otters are wonderful and they are somewhat people friendly too which makes them even more endearing~
So cute! <3
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Highly intelligent and ever so cute too!
Yes! And curious too!
Love the title and the photos! Adorable! So sad they were hunted for their fur. Lets hope that stays illegal!
Thanks
Peta
Amen to this! ( ･ὢ･ )
Fabulous images, Cindy, and your narrative is fun and interesting. Love these guys!
They are off the charts in CF (cuteness factor!)
You’re the best otter-spOtter, Cindy! ◦°˚\(*❛‿❛)/˚°◦
It was hard not to join them for an otterly refreshing dip! ( ･ὢ･ )
Good one, my friend! Awesome emoticon….d=(´▽｀)=b
I was appalled to discover there is no otter emoji! Power to the Otters! They need an emoji~
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They always look so relaxed, I love it, no worries , just go with the flow. Great life.
They certainly do appear very relaxed. They snooze most of the time! ( ･ὢ･ )
That I love too! I might be an otter, I love snoozing too! 🙂
<3 <3
Awesome set of photos.
Merci beaucoup mon ami!
I am just imagining what wonderful political decisions would be made if politicians were required to make them whilst relaxing in the sea like otters. I am sure everyone would otterly benefit.
This is an otterly brilliant idea! ( ･ὢ･ )
Amazing beautiful post, Cindy 🙂
Ah, you are a sweet friend! ( ･ὢ･ )
amazing pictures Cindy
Honored! Thank you~
Oh! Thank you very much, Sue. Love this series. So beautiful.
So happy you enjoyed & cheers to you!
Lovely photos, Cindy. 🙂
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Great pictures and descriptions, Cindy. I enjoyed this.
I am so pleased you did and thank you! ( ･ὢ･ )
They always look sweet and cuddlly, but if you’ve read ‘Ring of Bright Water’ you’ll know they’re vicious little buggers. 🙂
I read it long ago and loved it. Their mating behavior is downright disturbing. Males can rip off females faces. Elephant seal mating is disturbing too. I timed my visit to see them so I wouldn’t have to witness it.
Hahaha
I love these pictures, Cindy. I would to float around like that all day! 😀
Yes! I would love it too! ( ･ὢ･ )
wonderfully captured!
Otterly nice of you! ( ･ὢ･ )
I love otters and these are great shots. 🙂
I have a water ‘otter in my kitchen. I use it to make tea. 😀 (sorry about that)
This must be a Britishism that I am unfamiliar with I tried googling it to figure out what it means and I will refrain from saying what I found which I am sure is not what you meant, but I did learn something new! Laughing…. ( ･ὢ･ )
Not so much a Britishism as daft.
Water Hotter = Kettle. 😀 Don’t you wish you hadn’t bothered.
Lovely images .
Ah, very kind & appreciated!
How amazing to be able to spend time with these lovely creatures. I think we could all do with some furry and fun splashing around at the moment 🙂
Definitely we all could! ( ･ὢ･ )