Recorded off the CA 1 Hwy at the San Simeon Elephant Seal Vista Point. Headed to San Francisco from Los Angeles, my girlfriend and I turn off the highway into a parking lot overlooking the ocean. We join the small crowd gathered along the guardrails and look out onto the shore where the massive elephant seals lie on the sand. Their odd, oversized noses droop down over their top lips and into their mouths. Every now and then, they crane their heads up to the sky and emit vocalizations that sound like water emptying from a drain. Their appearance is extremely inelegant, though with the lulling repetition of the ocean waves as a backdrop, their guttural groans add an otherworldliness to a meditative sonic landscape.