A wayward sea lion made its way some 50 miles from the ocean at Grays Harbor, including up a river, creek and drainage ditch, to a cattle farm near Oakville on April 15.
The sea lion crashed through the farm gate and began barking when the owner arrived home.
A sea lion that swam and waddled at least 50 miles from the ocean into an Oakville cattle farm was found dead on Friday in Olympia.
Samples from a necropsy were being shipped out Tuesday, but no immediate cause of death could be found.
The long, strange journey for the male California sea lion began sometime before April 15. That’s when a cattle farmer near Oakville, a small community northwest of Centralia, found the animal in the driveway of his farm.
