🦭 Baby elephant seals! The elephant seal rookery at San Simeon is in full baby season, and the shoreline is basically a nursery right now. Every winter, thousands of elephant seals haul out here to give birth, nurse their pups, and lounge dramatically. The pups are tiny, fuzzy, and very vocal, the adults are enormous and unapologetically relaxed, and the whole scene feels like a nature documentary playing out in real time. This stretch of coast is one of the largest elephant seal rookeries on t

Atlantic Grey seal breeding season, newborn pups, white fur. Mothers nurturing, stroking young. Seals in warm November sun, pups and moms bonding and playing.