Published 13:25 IST, December 23rd 2019

Sea lions take a boat out for joy ride in viral video, netizens amazed

Video of two sea lions which were spotted taking a ride on a boat in Eld Inlet, Washington has taken the internet by storm, garnering over half a million views.

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A video of two sea lions spotted taking a ride on a boat in Eld Inlet, Washington is doing rounds of internet. clip shows fully-grown sea lions lounging on an apparently empty boat. video which was originally posted on Instagram has got over half a million views.

Enjoying ride

video was captured by professional soccer player Josh Phillips who is owner as well as president of Spawn Fly Fish, a fishing equipment company based in Olympia. Phillips and his friend were taking a boat ride near Evergreen State College on Tuesday afteron when y spotted ar boat anchored in waters of Eld Inlet, at sourn end of Puget Sound. As y both approached boat y saw something unusual. While talking to international media, he said that boat looked a little off and as y got closer y realised that re were two massive animals on boat. 

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Phillips who has frequent encounters with sea orcas and grey whales said that it was first time he h seen something like se. In a longer version of video that was later uploed on YouTube, a third sea lion can be seen approaching boat in an attempt to climb aboard but pair turned it away. caption of Youtube video re, “Landon if you’re watching video, I am sorry about boat mate.”  

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video quickly captured netizens attention who flooded post with comments. A user wrote that it was awesome but t for boat owner while ar commented that it was hilarious. Yet ar user wrote that boat belonged to sea creatures w. Ar user wrote that he was hoping for a human face to peek out of boat window.

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12:16 IST, December 23rd 2019