South African town wakes up to elephant seal hobbling down its streets

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen galumphing along a street in a coastal town in South Africa early Tuesday, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.

The two-ton seal, which an animal welfare group said was a young male, was making his way through a suburb of Gordon’s Bay near Cape Town.

Locals came out of houses and recorded videos. Police and a local security company attempted to…