Original watercolor, the size of the painting is 10”x14” and with a mat 3” wide consisting of two layers for a total size of 16”x20”.  The colors of the mats have been carefully selected to complement and enhance the painting.

Ritzy, a rare and beautful female Guadalupe fur seal, made a dramatic recovery at The Marine Mammal Center. Still showing scars from the net that was entangled around her neck and had caused her to strand, Ritzy was released along with two female California sea lions, Toothpick and Daddy-O, two months after her rescue.  Because her species is considered threatened and she was far from her natural territory of Guadalupe Island off Baja, Mexico, Ritzy was fitted with a satellite transmitter to monitor her movements. 

The transmitter was programmed to register Ritzy's activities for short periods of time so that we could gather data over a longer interval. A chart shows her travels over a two-month period. She was released near Pebble Beach in Monterey County. From there, her most western-recorded position was 300 miles off the coast. She traveled at least 204 miles north and 36 miles south of her original release point. Ritzy was one or two years old when she stranded. For someone so young, it is amazing to see how far she traveled.

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