Catalina Island photos

Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 33449  

Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 33450  

Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 33451  

Sunlight streams through giant kelp forest. Giant kelp, the fastest growing plant on Earth, reaches from the rocky reef to the ocean's surface like a submarine forest.
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 33452  

Garibaldi fish on kelp forest reef, underwater.
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: San Clemente Island, California
Image ID: 25409  

Blacksmith.
Species: Blacksmith, Chromis punctipinnis
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 01026  

Garibaldi.
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 02506  

Garibaldi.
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 02507  

Diver and garibaldi.
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 02989  

Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis with yellow zoanthid anemone Epizoanthis giveni, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California.
Species: Red gorgonian, Givens Zoanthid, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis, Epizoanthus giveni
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37219  

Catalina Island, West End.
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 25985  

Catalina Island, West End.
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 25986  

Red gorgonian Leptogorgia chilensis, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island, California.
Species: Red gorgonian, Leptogorgia chilensis, Lophogorgia chilensis
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37272  

Pacific torpedo ray Tetronarce californica, amidst huge schools of fish and baitfish, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island. This electric ray will shock the hell out of you if you are not careful.
Species: Pacific torpedo ray, Tetronarce californica, Torpedo californica
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 37283  

Submarine Reef with Hydrocoral and Corynactis Anemones, Farnsworth Banks, Catalina Island.
Species: Hydrocoral, Strawberry anemone, Allopora californica, Corynactis californica, Stylaster californicus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 34170  

Surf grass, Phyllospadix, underwater.
Species: Surfgrass, Phyllospadix
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30963  

Marina algae, Stephanocystis dioica.
Species: Stephanocystis dioica
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30965  

Garibaldi and invasive Sargassum, Catalina.
Species: Garibaldi, Sargassum, Hypsypops rubicundus, Sargassum horneri
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30968  

Garibaldi and invasive Sargassum, Catalina.
Species: Sargassum, Sargassum horneri
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30969  

Garibaldi and purple Chondria acrorhizophora marine algae.
Species: Garibaldi, Chondria acrorhizophora, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30971  

Garibaldi maintains a patch of algae (just in front of the fish) to entice a female to lay a clutch of eggs.
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 30977  

Hydrocoral, Farnsworth Banks.
Species: Hydrocoral, Allopora californica, Stylaster californicus
Location: Catalina Island, California
Image ID: 04704  

Kelp forest near Eagle Rock, West End, Catalina Island.
Image ID: 37134  

Golden gorgonian on underwater rocky reef, amid kelp forest, near Eagle Rock, Catalina Island. 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.
Image ID: 37135  

Garibaldi in kelp forest, near Eagle Rock, Catalina Island.
Image ID: 37136  

Kelp forest near Eagle Rock, West End, Catalina Island.
Image ID: 37139  

Kelp forest near Eagle Rock, West End, Catalina Island.
Image ID: 37140  

Kelp forest near Eagle Rock, West End, Catalina Island.
Image ID: 37141  

Kelp forest near Eagle Rock, West End, Catalina Island.
Image ID: 37142  

Kelp forest near Eagle Rock, West End, Catalina Island.
Image ID: 37143