Elephant seal that caused havoc in Victorian seaside town reappears at another beach

Authorities say the 500kg animal is ‘definitely not Henry’, a seal that used to frequent the Mornington Peninsula in the early 2000s

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An elephant seal has reappeared on a Mornington Peninsula beach after winning crowds and smashing windows on Friday on the other side of Port Phillip Bay, where it popped ashore for a trip to the servo.

“I was handed an oar, and was trying to get it back into the beach and into the water,” Glenn Sharp, a regional operations manager with Victoria’s Conservation Regulator, said.