100 PUNCHMAGAZINE.COM FIELD TRIPS For several years, Susan served as a docent at Año Nuevo. “It’s such a soap opera,” she says of all those elephant seals galumphing up the shore for the breeding and birthing seasons. But she notes a particular fondness for the slow days during the offseason. “For me, it was amazing to feel the rhythm of the tide,” she says—the literal rise and fall of the water, but also the daily rituals of the animals, like the coyote who would trot down the beach looking for lunch around the same time every day. Susan’s deep fascination with creatures and their habits produces a trait that’s crucial for wildlife Wild Wonder
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