A blue whale blows (exhales, spouts) as it rests at the surface between dives. A blue whales blow can reach 30 feet in the air and can be heard for miles. The blue whale is the largest animal on earth, reaching 80 feet in length and weighing as much as 300,000 pounds. North Coronado Island is in the background.
Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
Location: Coronado Islands (Islas Coronado), Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 09497
Wind turbines, rise above the flat floor of the San Gorgonio Pass near Palm Springs, with snow covered Mount San Jacinto in the background, provide electricity to Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley.
Location: San Gorgonio Pass, Palm Springs, California
Image ID: 22209
Punta Ballena, Faro Cabesa Ballena (foreground), Medano Beach and Land's End (distance). Residential and resort development along the coast near Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Baja California, Mexico
Image ID: 28930
Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds, Panoramic Photo.
Location: Del Mar, California
Image ID: 30489
Panorama dimensions: 4386 x 20362
San Diego County Fair at night. Del Mar Fair at dusk, San Dieguito Lagoon in foreground.
Location: Del Mar, California
Image ID: 31026
Wind turbines, rise above the flat floor of the San Gorgonio Pass near Palm Springs, with snow covered Mount San Jacinto in the background, provide electricity to Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley.
Location: San Gorgonio Pass, Palm Springs, California
Image ID: 22205
San Diego city skyline, showing the buildings of downtown San Diego rising above San Diego Harbor, viewed from Point Loma with the San Diego Yacht Club in the foreground, sunset.
Location: San Diego, California
Image ID: 22248
Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled.
Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California
Image ID: 23266
Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled.
Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California
Image ID: 23267
Devil's Postpile, a spectacular example of columnar basalt. Once molten and under great pressure underground, the lava that makes up Devil's Postpile cooled evenly and slowly, contracting and fracturing into polygonal-sided columns. The age of the formation is estimated between 100 and 700 thousand years old. Sometime after the basalt columns formed, a glacier passed over the formation, cutting and polishing the tops of the columns. The columns have from three to seven sides, varying because of differences in how quickly portions of the lava cooled.
Location: Devils Postpile National Monument, California
Image ID: 23285
Vogelsang Peak (11500') rises above Vogelsang High Sierra Camp, in Yosemite's high country, with semi-permanent tent cabins serving camp visitors seen in the foreground.
Location: Yosemite National Park, California
Image ID: 25765
Chrome Island (foreground) and Denman Island, Hornby Island in the distance.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Image ID: 34494
Panorama dimensions: 4992 x 14417
Snow-covered Mount San Gorgonio, seen beyond Double Peak Park in San Marcos, viewed from Mount Soledad in La Jolla, on an exceptionally clear winter day. Double Peak is about 20 miles away while the San Bernardino Mountains are about 90 miles distant. In the foreground are UCSD (University of California at San Diego, left), Veterans Administration Hospital (center) and Scripps La Jolla Medical Center (right).
Image ID: 37588
Panorama dimensions: 5054 x 16491