page_title: Children's Pool Beach
section_title: Seals and sea lions
hierarchical_section_title: Children's Pool Beach / Seals and sea lions
caption_attribution_description: English: Children's pool, La Jolla, California.
context_page_description: Children's Pool Beach is a small sandy beach area located at 850 Coast Boulevard, at the end of Jenner Street, in San Diego, California.
  The Children's Pool earned its name after the construction of a concrete breakwater in 1931. The structure was gifted to the community of La Jolla by the local philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, who paid for the construction of a breakwater project in order to create a place where children could play and swim that would be protected from waves coming onshore and the beaches adjacent to this area. The gift was confirmed by an act of the Legislature, signed by the Gov. James Rolph Jr. in 1931.
  The Children's Pool has become the subject of a controversial debate related to a growing colony of harbor seals which has inhabited the beach since the mid-1990s.
caption: More than sixty seals resting on the sand at Children's Pool, October 2005
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