{"id":454,"date":"2008-01-24T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/seals-on-the-sand\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T07:49:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T23:49:56","slug":"seals-on-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/seals-on-the-sand.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo of Seals on the Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent morning I dropped by the pelican bluff and found it pretty crowded so instead I shot harbor seals just around the bend. It was a fine morning and I had the beach to myself at the Children&#8217;s Pool. Here are a few portraits of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=harbor_seal__pinniped__animal\">harbor seals<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Phoca_vitulina_richardsi\">Phoca vitulina richardsi<\/a><\/em>) on the sand.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20214\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/pacific-harbor-seal-la-jolla-image-20214-924258.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20214\">20214<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Pacific harbor seal photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/pacific_harbor_seal_photo.html\">Pacific harbor seal<\/a>, <a title=\"Phoca vitulina richardsi photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Phoca_vitulina_richardsi\"><i>Phoca vitulina richardsi<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pacific harbor seals on sandy beach at the edge of the ocean...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20213\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pacific harbor seals on sandy beach at the edge of the ocean, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/pacific-harbor-seal-la-jolla-picture-20213-178070.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific harbor seals on sandy beach at the edge of the ocean, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific harbor seals on sandy beach at the edge of the ocean.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20213\">20213<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Pacific harbor seal photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/pacific_harbor_seal_photo.html\">Pacific harbor seal<\/a>, <a title=\"Phoca vitulina richardsi photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Phoca_vitulina_richardsi\"><i>Phoca vitulina richardsi<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20228\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/harbor-seal-la-jolla-san-diego-photo-20228-570902.jpg\" alt=\"Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach, Phoca vitulina richardsi, La Jolla, California\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pacific harbor seal on wet sandy beach.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=20228\">20228<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Pacific harbor seal photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/pacific_harbor_seal_photo.html\">Pacific harbor seal<\/a>, <a title=\"Phoca vitulina richardsi photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Phoca_vitulina_richardsi\"><i>Phoca vitulina richardsi<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=la_jolla&amp;state=california&amp;country=usa\">La Jolla<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=california&amp;country=usa\">California<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent morning I dropped by the pelican bluff and found it pretty crowded so instead I shot harbor seals just around the bend. It was a fine morning and I had the beach to myself at the Children&#8217;s Pool. Here are a few portraits of the harbor seals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,169,134],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"category-harbor-seal","9":"category-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11623,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/11623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}