Flipping Sand

To shade their skin from the sun, the seals would use their flippers to flip damp sand onto their back -- as this big bull is doing here.


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Blog: Farewell to the Pacific
Date: March 21st 2006

March 11 - 20, 2006 Monterey - Palm Springs, Calif. Mile 2,472 Prologue: Two months, nearly 2,500 miles, already a million memories. To see a visual representation of the trip thus far, click on the “route map” link at left. I [Shelly] will add these maps to the beginning of blog entries every so often, after an appreciable number of miles have accumulated. I have also created ... read more







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