Peninsula Valdes

The heavy breathing which sounds like exhausted sighs echo in the air around Punta Delgada, in the Valdes Peninsula, Argentina.
They are coming from the elephant seals which have come here to breed. The beach is divided into sections, which represent different males harems, or, conquests and they are quite easily visually demarcated from the cliff top view point.
The path winds down onto the gravel beach, where it becomes more obvious what is happening. Shavings of elephant seal skin, which looks like dry deep pile carpet, is cascaded across the shoreline sporadically. Another sigh reveals a giant grey skinned elephant seal hidden under some sand; buried in the grey sandy gravel the seal has tried to cool itself down as the Patagonian sun beats down relentlessly, scorching the baked semi arid ground.
A gigantic thump breaks the silence and attention is drawn to the greasy, fat lump of an elephant seal shuffling down the beach. It raises its front body, its face, vertically up. It is a truly tremendous sight. As it flops down onto the ground, ripples of its fat slop down hard onto the floor, performing the world's most spectacular belly flop.