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Piedras Blancas
      
December 11, 2010
Spiral web
 
 
      
Orange mushroom
 
Amanita muscaria
 
      
Red mushroom - russula?
 
 
      
Snail on fungus
 
 
      
Bob cat close encounter
 
Ok, so it's stuffed.  What did you think?
 
      
Bob and Ellie - close encounter
 
(also stuffed)
 
      
Mussel
 
"It's alive!"
 
      
Woodpecker eatery
 
 
      
Day's end
 
 
      
Older pix
Surfer's beach
 
 
      
The wave
 
 
      
Pacific tree frog
 
 
      
Low altitude fly-over
 
 
      
Ocean spray
 
 
      
Waves and wings
Northern Elephant seal
Mirounga angustirostris
 
"One...singular sensation..."
December 5, 2009
Beached!
December 5, 2009
Marine torpedo
December 5, 2009
Seal-o-wet
This bull takes a water break
 
Profile of pachydermal pinniped
 
December 26, 2008
      
 
When elephant seals are happy
 
December 26, 2008
      
 
When elephant seals sing
When seals impersonate Durante - "Hachacha"
 
      
  
When elephant seals go undercover
Rat nose
      
 
Sexual dimorphism
 
Sexual dimorphism of male elephant seals is seen in 
size
elongated proboscus
chest shield - used in dominance confrontations
a variety of behaviors including migrational patterns, haul out duration and timing, establishment of dominance, etc.
      
  
Classic sand flippage
 
      
  
Sin-seal-ly yours, Ellie
Weaner, December 22, 2009
      
 
Harbor seal fur
Weaner, December 22, 2009
      
 
Flora
Lupining for summer
Lupinus arboreus (yellow bush lupine)
As rare as a lupine's fang
Flower ball
Buckwheat (Eriogonum)
Verbena, verdad?
Yellow verbena
Abronia latifolia
family: Nyctaginaceae
It seems somewhat surprising that yellow or sand verbena is not in 
the verbena family???
Pining away
      
 
Flora and fauna
Thistle while you work
Ant-y-podal positioning
A willow with a lot of gall
      
 
Birds
Harried in the marsh
 
Circle of life
 
      
  
Mammals
Bunny
 
December 5, 2009 
Lazy as a lizard?
Initial Lyme of defense
 
In a curious bit of disease ecology, the western fence lizard appears to protect 
against Lyme disease.
      
 
Invertebrates
Fuzzy wuzzy
 
      
 
Apparently not from the white album
 
      
 
Whale chow
Amphipod
ET foam home
License to krill
 
Mario's mushroom
 
 
 
 
 
Amanita 
muscaria 
 
taken December 21-22, 2009 in Año Nuevo 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
      
Foam
Foam and function
Curious foamation
 
      
Sand
Dune stabilization
 
      
 
Patterns in the sand
 
      
 
Coyote v deer
 
      
  
Invertebrate sand writing
 
      
  
The shifting sands
 
      
  
Back on the beach
Geology
Fools seek gold in vein
 
      
 
Stone and concretions
 
      
 
Ironing out some hard issues
 
      
 
The steppes of Año Nuevo
 
      
 
Bob
Bob and ele skull
 
      
 
Bob and elephantine companion
December 5, 2009
Scapes - land and sea
Coastal rockery ("Rookery?")
 
      
  
Ocean view
North Point
The wave
 
      
 
As the sun sets rapidly
 
      
  
into Año Nuevo Island
 
      
Yes, but is it art?
 
December 5, 2009
      
  
Año Nuevo - docent training
(Autumn 2009)
 
Mentor mentee potluck
 
      
 
Chuck!
 
      
 
Fay explicates
      
 
Landmarks
(Autumn, 2009)
 
Learning the ropes
 
      
 
The Roost
 
      
 
A sign of wild elephant seals
 
      
 
Roger takes aim - look out elephant seals
 
      
 
Graduation!
(December 5, 2009)
 
Claudia violates the 25 foot rule
 
      
 
Male marine minstel - "Going back to Año Nuevo"
 
      
 
Creatures 
 
 
Seals
Sea otters
Elephants
 
Animals
 
Fungi
 
 
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San Mateo Coast Natural History Association (SMCNHA) 
 
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Año Nuevo State Park 
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Friends of the elephant seal 
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Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) 
 
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Hopkins Marine Station 
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse 
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse Hostel 
       
 
 
 
 
 
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