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In December and January each year, certain beaches on the Channel Islands and other protected parts of California’s coast become sites of noisy and dramatic conflict. It’s the beginning of breeding season for the Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga angustirostris). During the early part of the breeding season, the huge adult males – known as bulls […]

The early morning king tide was surging up to the base of the wave-battered bluffs along the Central California coast. At several gullies I waited for sweeping surges of tide to recede outwards so I could run to the next big rock to balance myself above the ebbing tide. When I reached the wide-open beach […]