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Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Channel Islands Photo. Image ID: 00627 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A kelp forest, with sunbeams passing through kelp fronds. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a terrestrial forest. Channel Islands Picture. Image ID: 02411 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A SCUBA diver swims through a giant kelp forest which is tilted back by strong ocean currents. Giant kelp, the fastest plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky bottom to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest. Stock Photography of Channel Islands. Image ID: 01107 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Photograph of Channel Islands. Image ID: 02158 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A SCUBA diver swimming over a rocky reef covered with kelp, watches a brightly colored orange garibaldi fish. Channel Islands Photos. Image ID: 01113 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Bryozoan grows on a red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Channel Islands Image. Image ID: 25395 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Aerial photo of Catalina Island, West End. Professional stock photos of Channel Islands. Image ID: 25978 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Pictures of Channel Islands. Image ID: 25393 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Water falling from the fluke (tail) of a humpback whale as the whale dives to forage for food in the Santa Barbara Channel. Channel Islands Photo. Image ID: 27029 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA

California sea lion, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Channel Islands Picture. Image ID: 23418 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, the distinctive pyramid shaped southern end of the island. Stock Photography of Channel Islands. Image ID: 26003 Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Northern fur seal swims through the cold waters and kelp forest of San Miguel Island, in California's northern Channel Islands. Photograph of Channel Islands. Image ID: 00966 Species: Northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA

Polyp of a strawberry anemone (club-tipped anemone, more correctly a corallimorph). Channel Islands Photos. Image ID: 01039 Species: Strawberry anemone, Corynactis californica Location: San Miguel Island, California, USA	California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Channel Islands Image. Image ID: 02031 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Professional stock photos of Channel Islands. Image ID: 02159 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Pictures of Channel Islands. Image ID: 02435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	California sea lions, socializing/resting, Webster Point rookery, Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Channel Islands Photo. Image ID: 06284 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Channel Islands Picture. Image ID: 23422 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA

Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Stock Photography of Channel Islands. Image ID: 25394 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Photograph of Channel Islands. Image ID: 25396 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Catalina Island, West End. Channel Islands Photos. Image ID: 25979 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA

A California sea lion plays with a piece of kelp, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions. Channel Islands Image. Image ID: 23427 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Giant kelp, blades, stipes and pneumatocysts, backlit by the sun in shallow water. Professional stock photos of Channel Islands. Image ID: 25401 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Boat Horizon above kelp forest. Pictures of Channel Islands. Image ID: 03764 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Red gorgonian polyps. The red gorgonian is a colonial organism composed of thousands of tiny polyps. Each polyp secretes calcium which accumulates to form the structure of the colony. The fan-shaped gorgonian is oriented perpendicular to prevailing ocean currents to better enable to filter-feeding polyps to capture passing plankton and detritus passing by. Channel Islands Photo. Image ID: 03480 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater. Channel Islands Picture. Image ID: 23419 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA	Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Stock Photography of Channel Islands. Image ID: 23420 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

California golden gorgonian and small juvenile sheephead fishes on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The golden gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Each individual polyp is a distinct animal, together they secrete calcium that forms the structure of the colony. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by. Photograph of Channel Islands. Image ID: 23421 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Semicossyphus pulcher Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A SCUBA diver enters a submarine cavern at Santa Barbara Island, underwater cave. Channel Islands Photos. Image ID: 23423 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	Kelp fronds and pneumatocysts. Pneumatocysts, gas-filled bladders, float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface and sunlight, where the leaf-like blades and stipes of the kelp plant grow fastest. Giant kelp can grow up to 2' in a single day given optimal conditions. Epic submarine forests of kelp grow throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Channel Islands Image. Image ID: 23424 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA