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Elephant Seals
Oct. 29th, 2006 11:30 pmSunday morning I felt a lot better and got up at 9am. The time at which I manage to get up is a good measure of my willpower and emotional energy, because getting up before 1pm is always hard, and in those pre-noon hours nothing in the world seems as important as getting a little more sleep. Making it out of bed at 9, even with the help of just-switched-off daylight saving time [1], means that I'm doing fine.
In my new book I had found a couple of hikes I wanted to do and sorted them by season. The one that came up as "do as soon as possible" involved watching elephant seals at the coast near Santa Cruz. In winter and spring you can hike the area only with a guide (because the elephant seals are mating or caring for their young, and no one wants to have a couple of clueless tourists get in the way of 4000 lbs of blubber and attitude), and I'm not fit enough to keep up with a guided tour. Plus, it's a 90 minute drive, and days are not getting any longer.
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[1] Story rec: On the futility of Daylight Saving, and going to utter weirdness from there: DST Nocturne, by Rebecca
In my new book I had found a couple of hikes I wanted to do and sorted them by season. The one that came up as "do as soon as possible" involved watching elephant seals at the coast near Santa Cruz. In winter and spring you can hike the area only with a guide (because the elephant seals are mating or caring for their young, and no one wants to have a couple of clueless tourists get in the way of 4000 lbs of blubber and attitude), and I'm not fit enough to keep up with a guided tour. Plus, it's a 90 minute drive, and days are not getting any longer.
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[1] Story rec: On the futility of Daylight Saving, and going to utter weirdness from there: DST Nocturne, by Rebecca