Last Friday, my Marine Biology class took a field trip to Año Nuevo State Reserve. It’s on the California coast, about half way between Half-Moon Bay and Santa Cruz.
The purpose behind the trip was to see elephant seals live and up close, and that we did, considering that Año Nuevo is the largest coastal breeding ground for them (normally they breed on islands). The walk was interesting, if a bit long.
I just wanted to share my media with everyone, since I took a lot of photos–142 to be exact, and did a few lame videos on my camera.
The video below (crappy as it is) gives a tentative view of how many elephant seals there were. Multiply what you see times 10 or so. Probably more. And towards where the water meets land, you can see two seals fighting–the smaller one tries to wrest control of the hareem, but looses. Not that you can tell. It’s more like he gives up because the other one is bigger.
Nice photos and video. That is a bunch of seals for sure.
Thanks for using Viddler too!!!
Thanks Colin…
I had to use Viddler after seeing it in action on Josue’s site. Seriously, the best video-sharing program ever. Now, if only I could merge clips together, so I could have done one seal clip instead of three.
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