Friends of the Elephant Seal group finds alternative ways to educate during pandemic
and last updated 2020-12-10 12:01:33-05
More than 1,000,000 visitors find their way to Piedras Blancas near San Simeon Beach every year to get a look at the once near-extinct elephant seals. Since the pandemic has prevented a nonprofit from educating on-site, they re finding other ways to help.
Off Highway 1 near San Simeon, majestic mammals call home. They re just cuddling, said Waleed Yosufzai, a Virginia resident visiting California, about a group of elephant seals together on the sand.
Since March, volunteer docents from the Friends of the Elephant Seal haven t been able to educate visitors on everything elephant seals like they normally do 365 days every year.