Southern Elephant Seals

Here are a couple of photos of Southern Elephant Seals from punta delgada a very large colony. They are hauled out in-order to molt. It is hard to get a scale in these photos, but some of the animals we saw were tremendously large, the largest probably 15-18 feet and 2-3 tonnes; in other words, HUGE. They are increadibaly akward on land and would only move ~10 metres along the beach at a time, then they would rest for several minutes, and possibly after that continue moving.