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🧜🏼‍♀️🤿 Freediving and Mermaiding Instructor
Professional Mermaid Performer
☀️ San Diego, CA
Visit thesurrealsirena.com for classes, tours, event services and inquiries!

09/14/2026

🌊 La Jolla Cove Access update 🌊

Future public meetings:
- La Jolla Parks and Beaches Sept. 28
- CA Coastal Commission Meeting Oct. 7-9
- La Jolla Town Council Oct. 8

📸 Want to get a photo of our wildlife without stressing them out? Try using the rule of thumb:
👍 Hold out your thumb at arm’s length. Can you completely cover the sea lion with your thumb? If not, you’re standing too close! ⁠⁠
🤳🏽 If a sea lion lifts its head, stares at you, or barks it’s a sign they need space. Use your phone’s zoom lenses, keep your distance, and respect these animals so we can all enjoy them in their natural habitat.

📣Report harassment to NOAA: if you see someone disturbing seals or sea lions (looking up, growling, moving away) or attempting to pet or injure an animal: Document it and call the NOAA hotline to report the situation as this constitutes harassment under the MMPA.

☎️Animal Rescue Hotline:
Seaworld Rescue 1-800-541-SEAL (7325) or 619-455-0709
Email [email protected]

☎️Non-pinniped rescues:
Project Wildlife 619-299-7012

☎️Report a Violation:
NOAA 800-853-1964
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⚠️ Note: The California sea lion and harbor seal are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Please do not approach them and keep 3 bus lengths away!

09/08/2026

✈️Activate Airplane Mode 🏃🏽‍♂️💨

🤔 Did you know sea lion pups aren’t born knowing how to swim? Giving them space allows our pups to rest and prevents them from drowning before they’re ready. Let them grow big and strong by giving them space all year long!

📣Report harassment to NOAA: if you see someone disturbing seals or sea lions (looking up, growling, moving away) or attempting to pet or injure an animal: Call the NOAA hotline to report the situation as this constitutes harassment under the MMPA

☎️Animal Rescue Hotline:
Seaworld Rescue 1-800-541-SEAL (7325) Email [email protected]

☎️Non-pinniped rescues:
Project Wildlife 619-299-7012

☎️Report a Violation:
NOAA 800-853-1964
_______________________________________

⚠️ Note: The California sea lion is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Please do not approach or touch them, especially their pups.

09/04/2026

✨ Sunbeams underwater are fascinating to watch. The way it bends around corners and filters through particles, shaping our marine ecosystems and providing the very essence of life for coral reefs, kelp forests, and algae.

🧜🏽‍♀️ Come and see my mersisters and I swimming at the Mississippi Aquarium at the end of September!

✨ Wands and Wishes Mermaids
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🪄 Finfolk Productions
👑 Merbella Studios Inc.
📍 Sealife Orlando

08/31/2026

🦭 La Jolla’s pinnipeds: seals vs sea lions

👉🏽 If you’d like to volunteer as a docent, build public outreach, promote wildlife education, and protect these animals check out the
Otherwise emailing the your concerns at [email protected] can encourage change and better management for these places

📣Report harassment to NOAA: if you see someone disturbing seals or sea lions (looking up, growling, moving away) or attempting to pet or injure an animal: Document it and call the NOAA hotline to report the situation as this constitutes harassment under the MMPA.

☎️Animal Rescue Hotline:
Seaworld Rescue 1-800-541-SEAL (7325) Email [email protected]

☎️Non-pinniped rescues:
Project Wildlife 619-299-7012

☎️Report a Violation:
NOAA 800-853-1964
_______________________________________

⚠️ Note: The California sea lion and harbor seal are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Please do not approach them and keep 3 bus lengths away!

Resources:
- Fisheries.noaa.gov
- worldwildlife.org

08/29/2026

Their representative had A LOT to say I can tell you that much 👀

Excuse me if my sea lion speak is rusty, but to keep the translation short the sea lions want space to rest and give birth. Their species rep says that it’s the human with the title of mayor that needs to keep nosy people from harassing their kind every day. In return, they will still be ambassadors of the ocean, help build respect for wildlife, and continue to be as cute as possible if the humans can enforce better management of the cove🙂‍↕️

📖 To give you some context, my friend and I were filming when we were photo (video?) bombed by this playful raft of sea lions who approached us.

⚠️ Note: The California sea lion is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Please do not approach them; any interaction is on their terms!

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08/25/2026

🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 There’s so much more I could get into about this, but the matter of the fact is that before La Jolla cove is overrun by people disrespecting our wildlife, it must be protected before we can create policies to coexist. And before someone else goes viral for kicking another sea lion in the face 😒

👏 The committee passed a notion to send a letter to parks and rec requesting keeping the cove opened, but to close the stairs during pupping season, allowing only swimmers to enter!

🧪 Diane Kane’s working group is inviting local scientists and citizens to document and acquire solid numbers to support the protection of our pinnipeds. Email [email protected] for info!

🐟 The overpopulation of sea lions is a myth. Their numbers will only reach a point that will level off as environmental resources will allow which naturally caps population size, specifically their food (look up carrying capacity).

Resources:
- Societal responses to rebounding Pinniped populations in the US West Coast: exploring strategies for human wildlife coexistence across four Socioecosystems
Levrel et al. 2026
- Fisheries.noaa.gov

08/21/2026

Can you hear the big bull barking underwater?

📣Report harassment to NOAA: if you see someone disturbing seals or sea lions (looking up, growling, moving away) or attempting to pet or injure an animal: Call the NOAA hotline to report the situation as this constitutes harassment under the MMPA

☎️Animal Rescue Hotline:
Seaworld Rescue 1-800-541-SEAL (7325) Email [email protected]

☎️Non-pinniped rescues:
Project Wildlife 619-299-7012

☎️Report a Violation:
NOAA 800-853-1964
_______________________________________

⚠️ Note: The California sea lion is protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Please do not approach them, especially their pups.

08/19/2026

🫧Sending you light and bubble magic your way 😉🫧

💖 My absolute favorite part of performing as a mermaid is looking back at clips of both kids and adults unable to contain themselves jumping with excitement! Whether it’s their first or fifth time visiting us, their absolute joy warms my heart and can even be felt through the glass 💙

💖 I’m excited to be performing with again in Mississippi at the end of September! Swim by and say shello 👋🏽

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📍 Wonders of Wildlife

08/17/2026

🫧Meet the merfolk at Chula Vista HarborFest!⚓️🚢

The festival is free to attend and we’ll be giving away:
🪎Treasures🏴‍☠️
🧜🏼Mermaid braids🧜🏽‍♀️
💖Applying biodegradable glitter✨
📸Photo ops📷

📍 Bayside Park, 999 Bayside Pkwy, Chula Vista
📆 Saturday, August 22 from 10am-6pm


📷 .surreal.sirena

08/14/2026

🍃Natural History Museum at Night😴

🌊 Washed Ashore is a special exhibition featuring sculptures upcycled from plastic debris and marine trash collected directly from coastlines and waterways. Come see the art that sparks awareness to the mission tons of plastic in our oceans!

👉Nat at night is an after hours event every Friday from 5-11pm with half price admission after 5pm only until September 4! Members get in for free!
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📍 San Diego Natural History Museum
🎨 The Washed Ashore
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