A Sea Lion in a Baby Pool

Here is one of the very few fun stories to come out of the hurricane tragedy:

a 13-year-old sea lion that was washed out of the Marine Life Oceanarium, four miles away in Gulfport.

The sea lion was rescued by a couple during the height of the storm as it washed by their home in a huge tidal wave. Two days later, the two were keeping the sea lion, named Pocahontas, hydrated in a child's wading pool and fed it fish scavenged from the freezers of the empty homes around them.