My friend liked to row his river kayak out in Puget Sound down around Brown's Point, Point Defiance area. This was really rather stupid in and of itself because his kayak had no skirt to keep the Sound out...right about the time he polished off the banana he had brought with him (see fishing superstitions post) a sea lion on a nearby buoy grunted at him.

So my friend, using the same part of his brain that told him it was okay to go out without a skirt, hurled the banana peel and every expletive he could thinik of at the sea lion.

The sea lion responded by diving in to the Sound and surfacing near his boat, blowing sea lion snot all over him in the process.

I'm pretty sure this story as true as my buddy was pretty shaken up when he got home that night and relayed the story as well as having an even more peculiar funk than usual which I attributed to the snot blowing thing...