Quite the life to just lay on the beach in the sun all day with not a care in the world! I've heard that at certain times of the year there are thousands of elephant seals on this one particular beach.
We got to see quite a few of them come of from the ocean and work their way to the giant sand pit that a few of the others were resting. This guy up above did this just before he moved about 5 feet. Apparently trying to move that massive body isn't so easy on the land, he had to work himself up to it. In all I think it took him close to ten minutes to make it maybe 50-75 feet. You can see that a few them decided the effort wasn't worth it and just stayed close to the water.
They like the loose dry sand so that they can flip it up onto their back with their flippers. It's suppose to keep the bugs off I guess. These two had a little altercation about space, then the older guy on the far right sat up and said a few words, and all was quiet again. It would be way cool to see this beach line with these guys. I also learned, that it is only the males that have the elephant snout, the female elephant seal just looks like a giant harbor seal.
Mike and his sister enjoying their time together. What do you think of Mike's hat? He's pretty impressed with himself in it, and I say not too shabby!
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