Looks like one but I don’t think they are supposed to be around the mar of Cortez.
Elephant seal washes up at Las Conchas.
Started by playaperro · Apr 8, 2023 · 28 replies
Any photos?
Especially pix of the flippers front and rear. And maybe a mug shot.
Especially pix of the flippers front and rear. And maybe a mug shot.
Last edited: Apr 8, 2023 at 2:53 PM
https://www.facebook.com/groups/FAQ.Puerto.Penasco/permalink/1306489240303503/
Won’t let me post a picture
Won’t let me post a picture
Estimated 1 ton could be the biggest in the world. Must be uge !!
Here's a FB link, still can't post pic's ?? Why??
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=592044356289095&set=pcb.592044486289082
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=592044356289095&set=pcb.592044486289082
It was just sunbathing today, tide came back up and swam away.
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playaperro said:
It was just sunbathing today, tide came back up and swam away.
Wear your sun screen brother….everyone of my Santo Tomas long term neighbors and me have it in some degree!
Im glad no one tried cutting a steak out of it.
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That is probably a record sighting of that male Elephant Seal. They are typically found off of the Pacific coast where the feed in cold waters thousands of feet deep. Their principal food item is deep water squid. That boy must be very lost and VERY hungry.
They got a pic of his mug unfortunately they wouldn’t let anyone near it to get a flipperprint.
Rare color too.
Rare color too.
Clearly everyone and thing is coming to the border.
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Jungle Jim said:
That is probably a record sighting of that male Elephant Seal. They are typically found off of the Pacific coast where the feed in cold waters thousands of feet deep. Their principal food item is deep water squid. That boy must be very lost and VERY hungry.
For sure not common, but not uncommon either.
I’ve seen that exact size on probably 3-4 different occasions on the beach in Las Conchas over the years , usually in a sandy spot between the reefs at low low tide.
One time we walked out and up to him and got within a few feet. He would roll over and look at us, and then we walk around a different angle and he would look at us, and he roll over that way.
They are pretty amazing animals.
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Telemax Sonora facebook page states that’s is been 43 years since this pinniped been seen in Penasco. This mamifero spent the previous 2 months at El Golfo.
Jungle Jim said:
That is probably a record sighting of that male Elephant Seal. They are typically found off of the Pacific coast where the feed in cold waters thousands of feet deep. Their principal food item is deep water squid. That boy must be very lost and VERY hungry.
Hey Marlin Perkins, that appears to be a seal in the Sea of Cortez!
Arthur North of "Camp and Camino in Lower California" published in 1910 writes an account of a California Grey Whale washed up on the banks of the now long gone Colorado River near the confluence of the Rio Hardy. This guy was a "real" science guy.
One of Hernan Cortez's overloaded and bloated gold ships was grounded by a hurricane in the salt flats south of Mexicali five hundred years ago and is still waiting to be located sunk in the muck.
Shit Happens Jerry!
One of Hernan Cortez's overloaded and bloated gold ships was grounded by a hurricane in the salt flats south of Mexicali five hundred years ago and is still waiting to be located sunk in the muck.
Shit Happens Jerry!
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Jungle Jim said:
Arthur North of "Camp and Camino in Lower California" published in 1910 writes an account of a California Grey Whale washed up on the banks of the now long gone Colorado River near the confluence of the Rio Hardy. This guy was a "real" science guy.
One of Hernan Cortez's overloaded and bloated gold ships was grounded by a hurricane in the salt flats south of Mexicali five hundred years ago and is still waiting to be located sunk in the muck.
Shit Happens Jerry!
This whale was in close in lobos last week ! facebook: 610743310576224
That is a typical adult Fin Whale.
California Gray Whales do not feed on krill nor do they have that pleated lower jaw that scoops up hundreds of gallons of water along with it's diet of small fish and krill.
California Grey Whales are bottom grubbers that target clams and other life in the sand and mud. They are always unmistakable with their barnacle load on their heads and back.
The whale in the video is as smooth and slick as a sheet of black rubber.
California Gray Whales do not feed on krill nor do they have that pleated lower jaw that scoops up hundreds of gallons of water along with it's diet of small fish and krill.
California Grey Whales are bottom grubbers that target clams and other life in the sand and mud. They are always unmistakable with their barnacle load on their heads and back.
The whale in the video is as smooth and slick as a sheet of black rubber.
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Jungle Jim said:
That is a typical adult Fin Whale.
California Gray Whales do not feed on krill nor do they have that pleated lower jaw that scoops up hundreds of gallons of water along with it's diet of small fish and krill.
California Grey Whales are bottom grubbers that target clams and other life in the sand and mud. They are always unmistakable with their barnacle load on their heads and back.
The whale in the video is as smooth and slick as a sheet of black rubber.
Those guys were so excited! That is such a good thing to see.
What type of whale?
MIRAMAR said:
What type of whale?
Finback whale in Santo Tomas.
Probably the same one they call the resident whale here in Penasco, it’s here year round
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People just can let that seal be. At el golfo yesterday tourists were trying to dig it out until the Marines on advice from experts forced them to leave…..at high tide the seal continued it’s tour of the the Vermillion Sea
His brain is heading him in the right direction but on the wrong coastline.
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Jungle Jim said:
His brain is heading him in the right direction but on the wrong coastline.
He will be in your pool in Yuma in a few weeks
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My salt water pool would suit him just fine also the 68 degree water temp.
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Apparently they are keeping track of all the elephant seals washing up along the coast. Now one surfaced in the small town of desembook, been on shore for a couple days kinda of a dark color with brown spot on top of back.
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Jungle Jim said:
My salt water pool would suit him just fine also the 68 degree water temp.
Where in the heck is Jungle Jim ?
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Just sitting here at my keyboard in wet Yuma AZ checking out all of the daily dumb shit on this blog site after all day gearing up my newly broken in Ford RaptorR for an ass haulin desert run to PP next week.
We will be running the new dirt power line road where it crosses the Coastal Hwy a few miles north of El Golfo then runs east thru about thirty miles of fresh virgin desert thru the "protected region" where it finally hits the Coastal Hwy again near the train station at Salina Grande. Some serious dune country out there where we should be able to run down a few Sonora Pronghorns and squash a couple dozen Flat-Tailed Horned Lizards just emerging from their winter snooze.
We did the more southern run a few weeks ago from the Gillespie Gold mine road back north thru more really fine virgin desert and ending up where the new power line crosses the Sonoita PP Hwy just east of Ejido Kennedy. Crossing the dunes along the riverbed was incredible with some powder soft drops twenty feet deep. The truck just plowed thru like it was designed to do. Had to pass a huge 6x6 crane truck mired up to the doors and outriggers sunk four feet deep in still wet quicksand in the riverbed. A high speed balls-to-the-walls thirty foot skip jump and we were over it like nothing at all. Don't have any idea how the CFE guys will ever get that thing out of there. It had a 100 foot plus telescopic crane that must weigh tons just partially retracted. Probably ran out of hydraulic pump when the truck burnt out the batteries while digging itself deeper into the muck.
JJ
We will be running the new dirt power line road where it crosses the Coastal Hwy a few miles north of El Golfo then runs east thru about thirty miles of fresh virgin desert thru the "protected region" where it finally hits the Coastal Hwy again near the train station at Salina Grande. Some serious dune country out there where we should be able to run down a few Sonora Pronghorns and squash a couple dozen Flat-Tailed Horned Lizards just emerging from their winter snooze.
We did the more southern run a few weeks ago from the Gillespie Gold mine road back north thru more really fine virgin desert and ending up where the new power line crosses the Sonoita PP Hwy just east of Ejido Kennedy. Crossing the dunes along the riverbed was incredible with some powder soft drops twenty feet deep. The truck just plowed thru like it was designed to do. Had to pass a huge 6x6 crane truck mired up to the doors and outriggers sunk four feet deep in still wet quicksand in the riverbed. A high speed balls-to-the-walls thirty foot skip jump and we were over it like nothing at all. Don't have any idea how the CFE guys will ever get that thing out of there. It had a 100 foot plus telescopic crane that must weigh tons just partially retracted. Probably ran out of hydraulic pump when the truck burnt out the batteries while digging itself deeper into the muck.
JJ
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Jungle Jim said:
Just sitting here at my keyboard in wet Yuma AZ checking out all of the daily dumb shit on this blog site after all day gearing up my newly broken in Ford RaptorR for an ass haulin desert run to PP next week.
We will be running the new dirt power line road where it crosses the Coastal Hwy a few miles north of El Golfo then runs east thru about thirty miles of fresh virgin desert thru the "protected region" where it finally hits the Coastal Hwy again near the train station at Salina Grande. Some serious dune country out there where we should be able to run down a few Sonora Pronghorns and squash a couple dozen Flat-Tailed Horned Lizards just emerging from their winter snooze.
We did the more southern run a few weeks ago from the Gillespie Gold mine road back north thru more really fine virgin desert and ending up where the new power line crosses the Sonoita PP Hwy just east of Ejido Kennedy. Crossing the dunes along the riverbed was incredible with some powder soft drops twenty feet deep. The truck just plowed thru like it was designed to do. Had to pass a huge 6x6 crane truck mired up to the doors and outriggers sunk four feet deep in still wet quicksand in the riverbed. A high speed balls-to-the-walls thirty foot skip jump and we were over it like nothing at all. Don't have any idea how the CFE guys will ever get that thing out of there. It had a 100 foot plus telescopic crane that must weigh tons just partially retracted. Probably ran out of hydraulic pump when the truck burnt out the batteries while digging itself deeper into the muck.
JJ
Dozer with a long cable maybe ? At the Willcox playa they used one to get the big fire truck out my drunk neighbor “borrowed” one night.
Glad you are your awesome self!
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