The Piedras Blancas Rookery on the Big Sur, PCH Highway 1 Tour is one of the best places in North America to see elephant seals, and their population can swell to around 17,000.
While the females look like your typically cute seal, the large bull males are another story. Often weighing an incredible five thousand pounds and measuring up to fifteen feet long, they’re easily recognized by their odd looking snout, which (sort of) resembles an elephant’s trunk. Breeding season is a particularly exciting time, when they fight over mating rights.
