A mother, her young child and their dog scrambled to safety away from a charging California sea lion at Jacksons Beach Friday afternoon. San Juan County Marine Mammal Stranding Network Coordinator Amy Traxler said, "The female came after them with its mouth open. Then the mammal stopped, laid down and was very disoriented."

The female sea lion, weighing a couple of hundred pounds, may be suffering from domoic acid toxins, which affects the brain, according to marine veterinanian Dr. Joe Gaydos of the SeaDoc Society.

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