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The seals at Ecomare each have their own tricks to getting food at feeding time, one raises a flipper, another spins, and another splashes repeatedly. Of course, the seagulls also have their tricks.
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Its fate having been sealed, Amtrak Parlor-Lounge-Obs. 3871 awaits scrapping in the carrier's Los Angeles storage yard circa 1983. 3871 had been built by Budd in 1948 for the New York Central. It was originally that road's 67 and was part of a group of thirteen Parlor-Lounge-Observation cars. 67 would be part of NYC's Great Steel Fleet and operate in various services until 1965 when it was retired. In 1968, the car was sold to Judge Roy Hofheinz for his proposed Astrodomain Motel. The project never was completed and 67 would fair better than most of the Hofheinz cars as it was sold to Amtrak in 1972. Amtrak would place the car back in service and number it 3871. The car was in service for another nine years and was retired again in 1981 and placed in storage at Los Angeles pending sale. It was there that the fate seen here befell the car when it was burned by vandals. The remains were then scrapped.
Los Angeles, CA
1983
Passenger Car of the Day
11/26/24
Weekend trip to see the grey seals, and a few common seals, at Horsey Beach in Norfolk. Fantastic to see, but always a reminder of how stupid people are, whether it be because they/we leave plastic on the beach or in the sea, gettting way too close to seals when they visit this beach, or what really baffles me, bringing their dogs to see the seals! People.
Elephant Seals, Piedras Blancas rookery, on Highway 1 seven miles north of San Simeon on the California Central Coast
With a zoom, so not as close as it looks. The mom leaves baby on the beach when they get tired, comes back for them later. State law makes it illegal to touch or interfere with seals on the beach and volunteers usually stand around and make sure that people don't get too close to baby.
This injured seal was up on the rocks trying to rest and mend, taking advantage of the warm sun. After spending the entire day on the jetty rock, it slid back into the water once the tide came in. My last sight of it was as it was swimming out of the inlet toward the ocean.
During the day, I was in constant contact with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center experts in Brigantine NJ - and provided them with hi-res photos detailing the injuries for their analysis.