{"id":716,"date":"2017-03-22T02:41:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T02:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=716"},"modified":"2017-03-22T02:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T02:41:03","slug":"elephant-seals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=716","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Seals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just off the Pacific Coast Highway, near San Simeon (about a 1 hour drive north of San Luis Obispo), you get to see some magnificent creatures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.54.30-e1490149900367.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.54.30-e1490149900367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"952\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.54.30-e1490149900367.jpg 952w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.54.30-e1490149900367-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.54.30-e1490149900367-768x495.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 952px) 100vw, 952px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are the ELEPHANT SEALS.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.56.55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-721 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.56.55.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.56.55.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.56.55-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.56.55-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And they have a distinctive call :)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.56.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-719\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.56.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.56.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.56-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.56-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which can be quite loud.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.57.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.57.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.57-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.17.57-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Male elephant seals can grow to be 20 feet long and weigh up to 8,800 lbs.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.16.54-e1490149818484.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.16.54-e1490149818484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.16.54-e1490149818484.jpg 1021w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.16.54-e1490149818484-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.16.54-e1490149818484-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They can hold their breath for up to 100 minutes.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.14.10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.14.10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.14.10.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.14.10-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-10.14.10-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And they sure look cute when flipping sand on themselves :)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.58.17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-723\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.58.17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.58.17.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-02-16-09.58.17-300x225.jpg 300w, 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They are the ELEPHANT SEALS. And they have a distinctive call :) Which can be quite loud. Male elephant seals can grow to be 20 feet long and weigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}