Harbor seals are not the only animals you might see at Children's Pool Beach

In addition to harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) you might see...

Elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris)
Can you pick out the juvenile male elephant seal in this photo?

He's about the same size and roughly same shape as the harbor seals, and is easy to miss.

One difference is that he's solid-colored instead of spotted, but some harbor seals are nearly as plain.

Harbor seal

Harbor seals have fairly short thick hind flippers and the digits are all about the same length.
The easiest way to identify a juvenile elephant seal here is by the shape of the tail flippers.
Elephant seal

In contrast, elephant seals have hind flippers that are thin and deeply falcate (the middle digits are shortest, giving each flipper a cutout "fishtail" appearance

We'll add species as they arrive and we get photographs...
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