Thursday, February 11, 2010

A friendly elephant seal

Our time at the elephant seal rookery near San Simeon, CA last January was amazing, but we couldn’t get quite this close:

2 comments:

fran said...

Elephant seals are not lap dogs...

Antony said...

Well, you know that, and I know that, and even the woman in the video knows that, but no one seems to have informed the (obviously juvenile) elephant seal that he's not a lap dog. I thought the woman showed great restraint in not petting him, which I would have sorely wanted to do if I had been in that situation.