One hums with high-speed drills and anxiety; the other echoes with joyful barks and tail wags.
—
Henry I. Miller,
STAT,
28 Jan. 2026
On our third day, a late-afternoon beach landing on Sante Fe deposited us amid a colony of sleeping sea lions, their barks and coughs reverberating across the sandy shore.
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