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California, 10th November, and yet more elephant seals and otters

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I thought it might be amusing to show you the difference between our style of car camping and the goliaths we often parked next to. Here are a couple of pictures of our car first thing in the morning at the campsite at San Simeon. We left San Simeon and started our tour up Highway 1 and the fabled stretch of road and coastline, the Big Sur. However Mairi was so entranced with the elephant seals that we had to pay a return visit. We also saw the sea otters again, this time two in the same vicinity and also many of the extremely ugly turkey vultures which soared over our heads continually. The natives did not always seem friendly and suffered from runny noses. Tempers could be lost very quickly But hanging around in the water was quite relaxing The sequence below shows the fighting between the juvenile males. The sea otters were a lot prettier and spent their time catching crabs, breaking them open with their stone