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Elephant Seals
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
In our January 17 report from Sands we include some tidbits about an encounter with a giant bull Elephant Seal:
(The Elephant Seal)
then watched us for 10-15 minutes, he was inside of us and to the East, big giant nostrils, very deep eye sockets, and a giant snout. No doubt it was a male elephant seal and it weighed over a ton. It's head was much bigger than a 5 gallon paint drum and it's body from nose to tail was perhaps 10 feet long. It kept watching us, sometimes submersing itself for awhile, but always coming back up.
Well it turns out via Corinne that a few days earlier a female Elephant Seal washed up at Campus Point:
I just wanted to let you know that a dead female elephant seal washed up at campus point a few days before your sighting at Sands. She was about 10 feet long and absolutely huge. It's really cool that you got to see a live one.
Long live the Elephant Seals.
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then watched us for 10-15 minutes, he was inside of us and to the East, big giant nostrils, very deep eye sockets, and a giant snout. No doubt it was a male elephant seal and it weighed over a ton. It's head was much bigger than a 5 gallon paint drum and it's body from nose to tail was perhaps 10 feet long. It kept watching us, sometimes submersing itself for awhile, but always coming back up.