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Seals, Sea Lions and Elephant Seals - Pinniped and Otariidae

This page has slideshow trip links that include Seals, Sea Lions and Elephant Seals in California.

Elephant Seals Molting

Elephant Seals (Mironga Angustirostris) - June 15, 2008, Young Elephant Seals molting on the beach at Piedras Biancas, Pacific Coast Highway, California

Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery

Big Sur Highway 1- October 9, 2007 - Pacific Coast Highway, Point Sur Lighthouse, Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery

"Even if a Norse hunter did befriend an Inuit hunter, the Norseman couldn't just borrow his friends kayak and learn how to use it, because the kayak was in effect a very complicated and individually tailored piece of clothing connected to a boat, made to fit that particular Inuit hunter, and fabricated by the Inuit's wife who (unlike the Norse girls) had learned from childhood to sew skins." (Jared Diamond, Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed, 2005, Penguin Books Ltd., pgs. 264, 265)

Wave at San Nicolas Island Sandspit
Sandspit at San Nicolas Island February 2007
Related Links - San Nicolas Island - February 2007 | Channel Islands of California Photos

Pacific Harbor Seal
Pacific Harbor Seal Phoca vitulina richarii - Carpinteria Harbor Seal Colony - Arpil 7, 2007

"Each winter and spring from December to May the stretch of beach between the Bluffs and Veneco's pier hosts almost 300 seals giving birth to and raising this year's batch of pups." Carpinteria.com - Seal Watch

 

"This colony has existed for over a century. Moreover, it has thrived next to the bustling Casitas Pier, which for decades has served the oil industry. It is also near the onshore processing facility which has existed for years." http://www.venocoinc.com/seals-master.html

Surfing Sea Lions San Nicolas Feb 2007
Surfing Sea Lions at San Nicolas Island - February 2007

Sea Lions San Nicolas Feb 2007
Sea Lions at San Nicolas Island - February 2007

Sea Elephant, San Nicolas Island February  2007
Sea Elephant Mirounga angustirostris at San Nicolas Island - February 2007

Elephant Seal
Elephant Seal at Corral Harbor, San Nicolas Island, February 2007

Santa Barbara Islands
Trip to Santa Barbara Island, September 17, 2006

Elephant Seals at
Big Sur - March 21, 2006 - First Day of Spring

Update for Spring 2007- "March 9, 2007 - 2007 Pup Count: Brian Hatfield has just reported the count of pups born at the Piedras Blancas rookery during the 2006-07 birthing season as 4100, up from 3800 in 2005-06. That implies a total rookery population of over 16,000, continuing a steady increase in the rookery population since it began in 1990." http://www.elephantseal.org

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