Photos by dgoodboe : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

As a child, I went to sleep listening to the sound of sea lions barking and ocean waves crashing. I didn't know how lucky I was. I also used to walk out on that pier 40 years ago.

beautiful!

wow! imagination works!

Thank you for your comments. Looking closer at this photo, I cannot see any identifiable young (so I changed the title), but in the several photos I shot here there were young. This was taken in early May and the area here includes a sandy beach, as well as the rocks. These harbor seals breed from March to May depending on the population and young seals were there on this beach, but perhaps not in this shot.

This is indeed Pacific Grove, on the Monterey Peninsula, but not Monterey.

These harbor seals are on the beach at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, not Monterey.

Hello dgoodboe!

Thank you for the visit of my photos and the nice comment.

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Many greetings from Germany, Christian

Thank you for such great comments! I love Monterey, and the MBA is a great place to visit.

Yes. I was being facetious, when naming the photo.

CA sea lions, always nice to see here. Sometimes one or two wandering Steller's sea lions drop by and intimidate all the rest by virtue of their size and loud bellowing voices. They shine like copper pennies in the sunlight, making them easy to pick out from the darker CA sea lions. This sedimentary rock outcrop more or less marks the site of the first wooden lighthouse. The Army Corp of Engineers placed it there without checking things like erosion and soil types, so after 3 years the lighthouse had to be moved back. And then again, as this coastline is always eroding inland, especially with winter storms. A natural arch existed for years that once connected this outcrop rock with lighthouse point. Such arches form and fall here over time.