(CNN) While the rest of the country was busy worrying about the government shutdown, a colony of elephant seals waddled onto a Northern California beach and snuggled on the sand.

And they're in no rush to leave.

With no government workers to shoo them away, the roughly 60 seals toppled a fence and made Drakes Beach their new home. After the government shutdown ended and parks reopened, officials temporarily blocked the beach access road and are urging locals to stay away from the area to avoid making the seals anxious.

Drakes Beach is part of the National Park Service's Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco.

Roughly 60 elephant seals toppled a fence and made Drakes Beach their new home.

"I've not seen anything like this here with these numbers," spokesman John Dell'Osso of the National Park Service told CNN affiliate KPIX. "An occasional rogue elephant seal, yes, but nothing like this."

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