The Collection Challenge: a herd of elephant seals
New month! New challenge! And for me, a new year. For my birthday ride we took a ride up the coast to Ragged Point, at the lower end of Big Sur. Perfect weather, a beautiful ride. Best of all though was getting to see the elephant seal colony beached at Piedras Blancas. What a great show!
I think herd is the correct terminology for a collection of elephant seals, is it not?
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Just when you had me convinced that my collections yesterday were the collections to end all collections, you pull a collection of elephant seals out of your hat. I feel like I’ve been rope-a-doped. You let me get worn out from flailing wildly with boats, railroad workers, ducks, chairs and books, then you pummeled me with a powerful attack of large aquatic mammals. That’s almost as bad as the old hidden ball trick you played on me a few years ago. I am so gullible.
I feel bad. It’s not my fault though: I didn’t put those elephant seals there. Once they were there, they demanded to be photographed.
Hidden ball trick?, what’s that about? I’ve forgotten, which is no big surprise. I forget everything.
That’s the time I was about to be the first to finish one of our challenges and, as I recall, you declared me the winner. Then the very next day you snuck in TWO challenge rides to snatch the victory right out from under me. I wish I could remember exactly what the challenge was though. I just remember you comparing your sneaky maneuver to “the old hidden ball trick.”
A very unique collection!
“Herd” has my seal of approval. But … “There are many collective nouns for seals, including a colony, a rookery, a herd, a harem and a bob of seals.” (https://www.falconboats.co.uk/there-are-many-collective-nouns-for-seals-including-a-colony-a-rookery-a-herd-a-harem-but-perhaps-our-favourite-is-a-bob-of-seals-we-are-just-starting-to-see-some-of-the-adults-returning-to-the/)
What a very nice birthday ride! Hard to beat an elephant seal collection, but I’ve got an interesting entry for this challenge sometime this weekend.