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Ano Nuevo State Reserve Patch
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Code: CSP10-205-002
Price: $3.99
Shipping Weight: 0.50 pounds
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Ano Nuevo State Reserve Patch features an elephant seal, 2 1/2 x 3 inches.
Fifty-five miles south of San Francisco and the Golden Gate, a low, rocky, windswept point juts out into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish maritime explorer Sebastian Vizcaino sailed by the point on January 3, 1603. His diarist and chaplain of the expedition, Father Antonio de la Ascension, named it Punta de Ano Nuevo (New Years Point) for the day on which they sighted it in 1603.
Ano Nuevo State Reserve is the site of the largest mainland breeding colony in the world for the northern elephant seal, and the interpretive program has attracted increasing interest every winter for the past 19 years. People who hope to see the seals during the winter breeding season are urged to get their reservations early. The males battle for mates on the beaches and the females give birth to their pups on the dunes.
During the breeding season, December through March, daily access to the reserve is available via guided walks only. Most of the adult seals are gone by early March, leaving behind the weaned pups who remain through April. The elephant seals return to Ano Nuevos beaches during the spring and summer months to molt and can be observed during this time through a permit system.>
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