Panicked Sea Lions Damage SLO County Gondola — 100-Year-Old Heirloom Lost

Panicked Sea Lions Damage SLO County Gondola — 100-Year-Old Heirloom Lost

A group of sea lions seeking refuge from orcas trashed a gondola docked in Morro Bay this summer. Gondolier Stefano Anastasia was on a family vacation in Carlsbad on June 2 when he received a distressing text message from the landlord who leases him a dock space on the Embarcadero. “My dock box was just absolutely shattered,” Anastasia said. “It was just not good.” A large colony of sea lions had shimmied onto the dock and gondola to hide from o…