\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Memorial Day weekend outrigger canoe race in Monterey came with an unexpected passenger when a sea lion hopped onto a Santa Cruz team\u2019s canoe in the middle of the competition.Outrigger Santa Cruz said the incident happened during a race at Del Monte Beach, where crews were surrounded by marine life throughout the event.\u201cWe were at an outrigger canoe race at Del Monte Beach in Monterey. It was super active with wildlife. There were a ton of dolphins surrounding us most of the race, and multiple clusters of sea lions too,\u201d the team said.According to the team, the sea lion may have been startled before jumping onto the racing canoe.\u201cI guess we got in this guy\u2019s way and he may have gotten a bit spooked,\u201d they said.The surprise encounter sparked plenty of screaming from paddlers, but the team said its coaches, who were also in the canoe, quickly told everyone to keep paddling because they were locked in a close race with rival teams.\u201cMost of us in the canoe screamed our heads off, but we happened to have both of our coaches in our crew. So they immediately were yelling at us to keep paddling,\u201d the team said.Despite the chaotic moment, Outrigger Santa Cruz said the crew finished in third place and was happy with the result.See more coverage of top Central Coast stories \/ Download our app \/ Subscribe to our morning newsletter \/ Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel \/ Make KSBW a preferred news source in Google\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tMONTEREY, Calif. \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n A Memorial Day weekend outrigger canoe race in Monterey came with an unexpected passenger when a sea lion hopped onto a Santa Cruz team\u2019s canoe in the middle of the competition.<\/p>\n Outrigger Santa Cruz said the incident happened during a race at Del Monte Beach, where crews were surrounded by marine life throughout the event.<\/p>\n \u201cWe were at an outrigger canoe race at Del Monte Beach in Monterey. It was super active with wildlife. There were a ton of dolphins surrounding us most of the race, and multiple clusters of sea lions too,\u201d the team said.<\/p>\n According to the team, the sea lion may have been startled before jumping onto the racing canoe.<\/p>\n \u201cI guess we got in this guy\u2019s way and he may have gotten a bit spooked,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n The surprise encounter sparked plenty of screaming from paddlers, but the team said its coaches, who were also in the canoe, quickly told everyone to keep paddling because they were locked in a close race with rival teams.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of us in the canoe screamed our heads off, but we happened to have both of our coaches in our crew. So they immediately were yelling at us to keep paddling,\u201d the team said.<\/p>\n Despite the chaotic moment, Outrigger Santa Cruz said the crew finished in third place and was happy with the result.<\/p>\n See more coverage of top Central Coast stories<\/strong><\/a> \/ <\/strong>Download our app<\/strong><\/a> \/ <\/strong>Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/strong><\/a> \/ <\/strong>Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/strong><\/a> \/ <\/strong>Make KSBW a preferred news source in Google<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Memorial Day weekend outrigger canoe race in Monterey came with an unexpected passenger when a sea lion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":996008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3847],"tags":[557,276400,202089,10936,1442,276394,17170,2178,55650,276397,276393,276395,276396,276398,276399,276401,228081,70,10629,167065,16,15,1717],"class_list":["post-996007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-california","tag-canoe-race","tag-central-coast","tag-coaches","tag-competition","tag-del-monte-beach","tag-dolphins","tag-marine-life","tag-memorial-day","tag-memorial-day-weekend","tag-monterey","tag-outrigger-canoe","tag-outrigger-race","tag-outrigger-santa-cruz","tag-paddlers","tag-rival-teams","tag-santa-cruz","tag-science","tag-sea-lion","tag-third-place","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116668221723266309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}