It was only two miles further south to visit the Sea Lion Caves. When we bought our tickets, they were up-front (well, after we asked anyway) with the warning that the sea lions hadn’t been in the cave this morning, and they were undoubtedly out in the ocean feeding, but we decided to take the elevator 200 feet down and check out the cave anyway. Sure enough, there was not a sea lion to be seen, but the cave itself was still interesting (America’s largest sea cave), and included several educational displays about sea lions, including two skeletons (one left undisturbed, and one reassembled).