Photo Wednesday: Elephant Seal Napping

One of the things I like to do is get to the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal rookery north of San Simeon in January. It’s high season there, with the males staking out harems and territory and fighting, and the females coming on shore to give birth and then mate to start the cycle again. Lots of noise, lots of smells, lots of action, but in all honesty, most of these huge animals spend most of their time laying still.

This picture catches one of those moments, as a male Elephant Seal hangs out on the sand taking a nap and ignoring the chaos around it.

Fuji X-T20, 100-400 + 1.4X TC @ 560mm, 1/550 second @ F/9, ISO 1250