Molting

The beach is filling up with seals returning to molt. It's adult females and juveniles of both sexes who are on the beach.

Most of this year's pups have left on their first migration. The seals on the beach now are a full year old and older. It's easy to see the old skin peeling off.

The adult males have left to regain the weight they lost in three months on the beach during the breeding season. This one shows how thin they get.

He'll soon regain that weight and bulk up to his fighting weight, feeding along the coastal shelf along the Canadian and Alaskan coast.