The La Jolla Cove Access Working Group has come up with five suggestions to help keep people and sea lions safe from each other.

“What we're trying to do is make it so that there's safe access to the coast and our people and sea lions," said Chas Dye, a member of the La Jolla Cove Access Working Group.

To create safe boundaries between people and the pinnipeds — or a group of marine mammals with flippered feet, such as seals, sea lions, and walruses — they've come up with a five-point proposal. It includes multi-language scripts for tour guides to explain the rules to tourists who arrive at La Jolla Cove by the busloads, and a designated viewing area to help keep people off the beach.

"I like being here from this distance, like above seeing them exist. I don't want to be close by, just

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