La Jolla Friends of the Seals is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization that was established in 1999 to offer protection to the La Jolla Harbor Seal Colony and education to the public through its Naturalist-Docent Program, “Friends of the Seals.” Casa Beach (or Children’s Pool) is a rich, natural setting with harbor seals on the beach, gray whales and bottlenose dolphins offshore, brown pelicans on the rocks, cliff swallows darting about, ground squirrels on the bluffs, a wealth of invertebrate life in the tidepools and even an occasional sea lion or elephant seal making an appearance on the beach. For many years there has been controversy about the appropriate use of the Casa/Children’s Pool Beach with conflict between those who wish to destroy the harbor seal colony and those who wish to preserve it.