Lotta Lookin' Goin' On

Spent most of the day yesterday looking for animals that were reported on the beaches near Asilomar and the 17 Mile Drive.  It sounded like a juvenile elephant seal pup, (or more than one of them), was hauling out on the beach, but returning to the water before we arrived. We searched diligently, hiking along three or four beaches, scanning with my binoculars, but no stranded animals. Which is a very good thing!

It was an absolutely beautiful, sunny day, and the beaches were almost deserted. If there was any good time to haul out on the usually busy, crowded beaches, it certainly was yesterday. No tourists, no locals and no dogs. Just sparkling clear blue sky, all kinds of shore birds, an once, an harbor seal swimming near the rocks, eyeing us and moving on.

So here is a pic of four harbor seals lounging on the rocks at a rookery along 17 Mile Drive. I took this photo when I drove down there last week...