There won’t be much blogging or posting of new images for a while. I am currently geotagging my images, and have tagged about 12,000 of my 20,000+ photographs. When the geotagging is completed there will be some interesting new possibilities for presenting the images, including incorporating global mapping and visualization software. It should all be implemented in about two weeks….
Photographer, Floridian, traveller and blogger Bill Lockhart was kind enough to take an interest in my photography and interview me recently. Bill is building a collection of fine interviews focusing on a diverse collection of photographers. I am fortunate to be considered among them. Thanks very much, Bill!
This year’s edition of the Tidelines calendar is especially nice because one of our photos appears on the cover (duh). Can you guess where it was shot? Hint: it rhymes with “ledge” and lots of bones are broken there. Order your Tidelines calendar now so you too can time all your ocean functions to take maximum advantage of the tide. By the way, a big swell arrives tomorrow, if you have a Tidelines calendar on your wall you’ll know when to go.
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Another interesting shot of the smoke plumes viewed from space. Look, there’s Guadalupe Island down there too!
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No, I didn’t take this photo. NASA did. They have better cameras than me.
The Witch Creek fire has now eaten 200,000 acres and at least 500 homes. It is the largest plume visible from space at the moment, dwarfing the fires in other parts of California. Temperatures have dropped noticably today, humidity has risen and the fire seems to have lost some of its strength, but I don’t want to jinx things by feeling too optimistic.
Sarah and I went down to check the surf at Ponto tonight. It was strange. The water was glass, with small shapely waves. It looked at once fun and depressing. I wish I had had time to get in the water. There were a handful of surfers out. The sky was bizarrely red and it was hard to distinguish the horizon due to the haze. A layer of soot and ash lay over the beach and was pooled thickly in some of the depressions in the sand where the breeze could not pick it up. Groups of helicopters were passing by just offshore every few minutes, some going north and some south, busy with their firefighting efforts. A gal that my daughter spoke with had come from Jamul earlier in the day, trying to help a friend of hers save property and horses, but I sensed from her mood that they did not have much success. The sky and sun were so super saturated red/orange/yellow that they practically fried the electronics in our little point and shoot pocket mini micro digicam.
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Some links:
The best page for info about the perimeter of the fires, but it is getting very heavy traffic: San Diego Fires - Information.
SD Union-Tribune blog, updated frequently. Traffic was so heavy they had to move this page to Blogspot, the U-T servers couldn’t deal with the demand.
SD Union-Tribune main website (often down due to heavy traffic)
Local TV news coverage: NBC, ABC, CBS.
Area Traffic: SigAlert, Dept of Transportation
An interesting, animated look at the smoke plumes from space: Satellite Animated View.
We’ve received many phone calls and emails about the wildfires that are raging throughout Southern California. Immediate danger to our house appears minimal, although the air quality is unbelievably bad with ash raining down. The fire that was going yesterday (Monday) in San Marcos (due east of us) was a real concern as the Santa Ana winds would have blown it right through us. It appears that particular fire is now 100% contained and mostly under control. The major tragedies are the Witch Creek, Harris and Rice fires. About 6-12 miles to the south of us, the huge Witch Creek fire has mowed down a broad swatch of open space, rural and residential communities from Ramona, through Rancho Bernardo and Escondido, touching Rancho Santa Fe and Fairbanks Ranch and continuing on towards the coast. It currently threatens areas near Del Mar near the ocean. Many of our friends in Encinitas, Olivenhain, Leucadia and La Costa have evacuated, either voluntarily or at the request of authorities. We are packed to leave but so far do not feel seriously threatened, and consider ourselves very lucky. At the moment.
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Some links:
The best page for info about the perimeter of the fires, but it is getting very heavy traffic: San Diego Fires - Information.
SD Union-Tribune blog, updated frequently. Traffic was so heavy they had to move this page to Blogspot, the U-T servers couldn’t deal with the demand.
SD Union-Tribune main website (often down due to heavy traffic)
Local TV news coverage: NBC, ABC, CBS.
Area Traffic: SigAlert, Dept of Transportation
An interesting, animated look at the smoke plumes from space: Satellite Animated View.
Just back from my ‘07 trip to coastal Alaska. I was scoping out some places for a longer trip next year, to determine if they make sense for a family (they do). I made five flights in bush and float planes over two national parks, did some easy hiking, got to see 30+ brown bears, 25+ glaciers, lots of seabirds, some eagles and a marmot, ate really well and managed to make a few new friends along the way. I’ve got 5500 images to sort through, so it will be a few weeks before I get any posted.
OK, I’m back now. The trip was killer, the photography conditions were top notch and the scenery beautiful. The weather was really cold. I got a sunrise in Bryce at -4°F, two sunrises at Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park at 0°F and 8°F, and sunrise in Arches National Park at about +11°F. Each morning I would scrape the ice off my windshield with a credit card. All the food in my car froze solid each night – it’s not easy eating frozen pesto pizza from Jax in Moab for breakfast the following morning, and I damn near cracked a tooth on a rock hard Clif bar. Fortunately, the cold front had dusted the landscape with snow and provided for clear skies – not a cloud in 4 days. It finally warmed up a little by the time I got down to Monument Valley and Antelope Canyon, and the drive home through Zion was downright balmy at 30°F. I’ve got 1700 images to sort through now, so it will take a few weeks to get them edited and selected for the stock files, and then I’ll start posting them.
I’m in Utah right now, shooting landscapes in Bryce, Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, and running some control tests to determine just how bloody cold the weather must be before my camera freezes and I switch my attention to sampling the microbrews of Moab. My office will be handling requests for comps (for layout) and low-res images (for publication), sending those by email but with a delay of up to 6 hours before those requests are sent. Unfortunately, I will not be able to deliver high res images until I return after January 12. Happy New Year!
We checked out the web logs for the first time in a while. OceanLight.com is receiving about 200,000 visitors and 300,000 visits a month, not counting crawlers (e.g., Google, Yahoo, MSN), that’s over two million visitors each year. It is increasing each month (probably in sync with the increase in people with access to the internet, doh). The incoming phone calls and email inquiries from editors and publishers are increasing with the web traffic which means the site is serving its purpose. (We do no marketing whatsoever, other than maintaining this website.) Thanks Google, keep ‘em coming.
Update: some of my dolphin photos are used to create the gigantic wall murals that surround 11-year old Jael’s dolphin themed bedroom, revealed in the final minutes of the program. The perspective of the room is that of a diver (or another dolphin), surrounded on all sides and below by blue Bahamian water, white sand and many dolphins. It looked pretty cool on the broadcast and I hope to see some photos of the room itself soon. We hope Jael Kirkwood likes her new room and gets a chance to swim with dolphins sometime.
Phillip Colla’s photography will be featured tonight during the January 15th, 2006 two-part episode of ABC Television’s Extreme Makeover : Home Edition. This show is apparently a big hit, although since we don’t watch television we don’t really know that for sure so we will have to check it out and see! We expect you to check it out too, you are going to watch, right? The show airs at 7/6c on Sunday, January 15, 2006 with the second episode at 8/7c.
Background: in November I received a phone call from one of the production managers of ABC Television’s Extreme Makeover : Home Edition, inquiring about our photographs. They must have found the photos on our web site since that is the only way anyone ever finds us to inquire about photographs as we do no marketing whatsoever, being averse to marketing. Long story short, we provided photography that will appear in the “secret room” that is featured at the end of the episode. We cannot reveal the details until after the show airs. We’ll just watch the show and see how it turns out (we don’t know yet), and we think you should too since the photography featured in it will be top notch. We are pretty sure Phil’s photography won’t appear until near the end, since it is part of the “secret room” that is only revealed at the end by Ty Pennington (the host of the show).
We especially send our very best wishes to the Kirkwood Family, who are the great family featured on tonight’s episode, and hope they thrive and are happy in their new home!
Here is a list of contributors to the Kirkwood Family’s new home.
Check it out: 7/6c Sunday January 15, 2006, 2 hrs. Tell ABC Television’s Extreme Makeover : Home Edition that you especially liked the photos. While we are not certain, we think that the program will actually air in two special back-to-back episodes. So tune in, meet the Kirkwood Family and see if you can spot Phil’s snaps.
By the way, if you are interested in having a room-sized mural of our photography created for your home, similar to what appears in Jael’s room in the Kirkland home, please contact Lynn Krinsky at Stella Color in Seattle. She can give you all the specifics and create the mural you are looking for:
Lynn Krinsky
Stella Color
416 Dexter Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
lynn@stellacolor.com
PH: 206-223-2303
FX: 206-223-7005
Just returned from a three week road trip. It was amazing. We had lots of fun and shot thousands of photos. It will take several weeks before I get the images organized and available online, so for now some summary statistics of the trip will have to suffice:
The office hangover when we returned is considerable:
Batiquitos Lagoon, bordering Carlsbad and La Costa in northern San Diego County, is experiencing a fantastic display of spring flowers and plants. The hills bordering the lagoon are as verdant as we can ever recall seeing them, covered with lots of yellow flowers and deep green foliage. Now is a good time to check out any of the lagoons in north county. For more information: Batiquitos Lagoon, San Elijo Lagoon, Aqua Hedionda Lagoon, and San Dieguito Lagoon.
Keywords: Batiquitos lagoon photos, wildflowers, spring, photograph.
It appears my humble website has caught the eye of people who are concerned with the historical and modern naming of the Persian Gulf, also known as the Arabian Gulf. Certain political interests would like to see the body of water bordering Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain referred to only as the “Persian Gulf". However, National Geographic has updated their atlas to include “Arabian Gulf” as an valid alternate name. Apparently this development is threatening to Iranian interests. One group of interested individuals appears to be searching the web for references to “Arabian Gulf” and then contacting the authors of any offending pages to request that the term “Arabian Gulf” be corrected to “Persian Gulf". I am one of those offending authors, by virtue of some entries in my photographic database that use the term “Arabian Gulf” as the source for some mollusk specimens.
The following three emails from arrived in my inbox last night in what seems to be a concerted effort to politely clear up my confusion on the matter of the naming of the “Persian Gulf". I’ll try to correct the database soon, changing the reference to Arabian Gulf to Persian Gulf.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I noted that you have used the wrong term of “Arabian Gulf" instead of the historical and internationally recognized term of the Persian Gulf in your Web site;
http://www.oceanlight.com/lightbox.php?lr=Arabian_Gulf
I would like to point out that according to all historical/geographical documents, also United Nations’ directives, the name of this waterway which separates Iran (Persia) from Arabian Peninsula is the PERSIAN GULF :
UN Links :
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/westasia.pdf
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/iran.pdf
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/docs/escwa.pdf
PERSIAN GULF is also the only term used by the U.S. Department
of State:
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c2422.htm
or http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c2404.htm
You can visit this page for some maps & documents and see even Arab scholars until 1960s used “Al-Khalij Al-Farsi” (Arabic name of the “Persian Gulf");
http://www.persiangulfonline.org/maps.htm
“Arabian Gulf” in fact is the ancient name of the present-day “Red Sea” (located between Arabia and Africa).
Please imagine that all nations start to rename the historical and legal names of seas and oceans: African people try to change the name of Indian Ocean to African Ocean, American people rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America or Pakistani people try to use Pakistani Sea instead of the Arabian Sea !….
Also please be aware that Persian (Iranian) people never tried to use “Gulf of Iran"/"Gulf of Persia” instead of “Gulf of Oman” and never tried to chnage the name of “Arabian Sea” into “Persian Sea".
May I ask you to kindly use the proper term in that article?
Thanks so much for your attention.
Dear Sir/Madam,
“The Persian Gulf” separates Iran(Persia) from the Arabian Peninsula.Please, use the proper name of this body of water.Unfortunately, you have used the ancient name of the “Red Sea” for the Persian Gulf:
http://www.oceanlight.com/lightbox.php?lr=Arabian_Gulf
I look forward to your positive reaction.
According to all historical, geographical and international documents, such as United Nation’s directives, the body of water between Iran and Arabian Peninsula is only called “Persian Gulf".
For more information, please visit:
http://www.persiangulfonline.org/maps.htm
Let me remind you that “Arabian Gulf” is the old name of “Red Sea":
http://www.jpmaps.co.uk/images/24552.jpg
Please only use its real and full name.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Here is yet another one that just arrived. It appears that once a web site has been identified that contains the term “Arabian Gulf", many individuals associated with the Persion Gulf Task Force send emails to the website’s author to persuade him to change “Arabian Gulf” to “Persian Gulf".
Dear Distinguished Members,
The reference to the invented term “Arabian Gulf” is historically and legally incorrect. The correct designation for the body of water is the Persian Gulf. The Arabian Gulf is the ancient designation of the present-day Red Sea:
http://www.jpmaps.co.uk/images/24552.jpgThe term “Arabian Gulf” is as arbirary and invalid as re-naming the English Channel as the “French Channel", the Indian Ocean as “the Pakistan Ocean", or the Thames River of London as the “Celtic River". Think of the social, political, economic and historical chaos that would ensue from unwarranted actions, or should I say “arbitrary labeling"?
Iranians certainly do not refer to the Arabian Sea as “The Persian Sea". This is as historically and legally invalid as using “Arabian Gulf” to refer to the Persian Gulf.
In legal terms, the United Nations has twice recognized the legality of the term “Persian Gulf” (UNAD 311/March 5, 1971 and UNLA 45.8.2 © on August 10, 1984). It is significant that all Arab countries have signed the UN documents. For further information consult the following links:
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/westasia.pdf
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/iran.pdf
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/maplib/docs/escwa.pdfNote that U.S. Department of State also refers to the correct legal and historically valid term Persian Gulf. For reference please consult:
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c2422.htm
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c2404.htmArab scholars up to the 1960s have also referred to the body of water as per its correct name “Kahleej-ol-Faris” (Persian Gulf) (see George Hourani’s “Arab Seafaring: In the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times", Princeton University Press, 1995). For further information you may consult:
http://www.persiangulfonline.org/maps.htmAs noted above, the “Arabian Gulf” actually referred to the present-day Red Sea in antiquity (see Herodotus). The invention of “Arabian Gulf” with respect to its historically incorrect reference to the Persian Gulf was initiated by Sir Charles Belgrave (advisor to the Emir of Bahrain in 1926) who made the formal proposal to change the name of Persian Gulf in 1937 - the initiative was rejected by the British government at the time. For a popular reference regarding Sir Belgrave’s activities, see TIME Magazine’s August 27, 1956 entitled “The Uncontrollable Genie). Sir Belgrave’s failure did not restrain Mr. Roderic Owen (an employee of British Petroleum in the 1950s) from reviving the project of name change for the Persian Gulf.
The misapplication of terms, such as using the old term for the Red Sea (Arabian Gulf) instead of Persian Gulf, was an ingenious step in creating geopolitical and popular friction between Arabs and Iranians.
The term “Arabian Gulf” is a geopolitical invention devoid of historical context or meaning; it is also illegal (see aforementioned UN actions).
Note that the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) has removed all references to “Arabian Gulf” and now correctly refers to the body of water as The Persian Gulf. This is the result of a contact made to Russ Germain (Broadcast Language advisor, CBC Radio Canada) almost 3 years ago. On Monday Feb.11, 2002, Mr. Germain recommended that all references to “Arabian Gulf” be removed from CBC broadcasts in favour of the legal and correct term, Persian Gulf. I can forward a transcript of that communication to you upon request.
To quote Russ Germain with regard to the aforementioned letter, the incorrect Belgrave-Owen term “Arabian Gulf” is mainly the result of a “successful public relations campaign undertaken in the name of geopolitical interests".
It would be appreciated that the geographical error be rectified as soon as possible. Your attention to this matter is most appreciated.
From the San Diego Union Tribune:
U.S. Humane Society sues S.D., demands rope barrier for seals
By Ray Huard
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
February 26, 2005
The Humane Society of the United States filed suit yesterday against the city of San Diego, demanding that officials restore a rope barrier at La Jolla Children’s Pool beach part of the year to protect newborn seal pups. “Our marine scientists are telling us that the presence of the barrier during pupping season is crucial to make sure harbor seal pups are not killed,” said Jon Lovvorn, Humane Society vice president for animal protection litigation. (continued…)
Read Our Opinion Regarding Protection of the La Jolla Seals
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| A Pacific harbor seal hauls out on a rock, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 03011 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
A Pacific harbor seal hauls out on a sandy beach, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 01925 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
A mother Pacific harbor seal and her newborn pup swim in the protected waters of Childrens Pool in La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 02134 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Controversy over the La Jolla seals continues. To make a long story short: a group of Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) has taken up residence on the sand at the Children’s Pool, a small pocket cove in La Jolla, California also known as Casa Cove. Their presence there has led to associated restrictions in how people may use the beach. Historically (until the mid 1990’s) the beach has been fully available to people. However, in recent years the beach and waters just offshore have been reserved for exclusive use by the seals to minimize harassment of the seals by people, or simply closed due to seal fecal contamination, essentially making the Children’s Pool a prime seal watching spot but no longer available for most other beach uses. This has caused a heated debate to arise, with the core issue being: To Whom Does The Children’s Pool Beach Belong?
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| A Pacific harbor seal hauls out on a sandy beach, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 00296 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
This Pacific harbor seal has an ear with no external ear flaps, marking it as a true seal and not a sea lion. La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 01957 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Pacific harbor seals rest while hauled out on a sandy beach, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 01958 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
It should be noted that these harbor seals are not to be confused with California sea lions (Zalophus californianus). Harbor seals have no external ears and propel themselves in the water with their hind flippers. California sea lions are larger, have distinct external ear flaps and propel themselves with their fore flippers. California sea lions tend to be louder, barking often and engaging in mock sparring amongst themselves, while harbor seals vocalize much less. Occasionally a California sea lion will haul out on the Children’s Pool beach, but in general if you visit the beach and see animals on the sand they will all be harbor seals (and tourists).
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| A Pacific harbor seal hauls out on a rock, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 00940 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
California sea lions, Coronado Islands. Image: 02160 Species: Zalophus californianus |
Historically the Children’s Pool has been the near-exclusive domain of human beach-goers, at least until the mid-1990’s when the harbor seals began to colonize the beach. Until that time, the beach was considered a perfect sunbathing spot and the man-made seawall provided relatively protected waters for people to splash and wade. Eventually, harbor seals came to the same conclusions and began using the beach in large numbers for similar purposes: resting, socializing, birthing and nurturing of their young. Certain interest groups would like to see the beach once again fully available to people for recreation, e.g., swimming, sunbathing, snorkeling and SCUBA diving. Some in this group feel that forcibly removing the seals, or encouraging their departure by modifying the seawall or changing the physical character of the cove and beach, is the way to achieve this.
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| A Pacific harbor seal eyes the photographer while swimming in the shallows, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 15546 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Pacific harbor seal, mother and pup, La Jolla. Image: 15750 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Pacific harbor seal, mother and pup, La Jolla. Image: 15752 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Certain opposing interest groups would like the harbor seals to have first rights to the beach in such a way that people may use the beach subject to the constraint that they do not disturb the harbor seals. Note that the key word in this idea is disturb. Depending on how disturbance of the harbor seals is defined, this could mean anything from unfettered use of the beach by people to little or no use at all. They feel that legislation currently on the books, most notably the Marine Mammal Protection Act, guarantees the harbor seals’ continuing use of the Children’s Pool beach free of harassment.
I am often asked my personal opinion on this topic, through calls and emails arising from Oceanlight.com regarding harbor seal photographs. So here it is. My personal opinion is that the beach must be set aside primarily for use by the harbor seals, subject to strict interpretation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, with secondary use by people only to the extent that the harbor seals are not disturbed in any significant way. I also feel that the final determination of what constitutes harassment and disturbance should be determined by wildlife biology experts and marine mammal researchers working in concert with the provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act. Furthermore, where the definition of harassment and disturbance is unclear, I feel the most conservative position with regard to the welfare of the harbor seals should be taken: keep people far enough away from the harbor seals that harassment is no longer an issue.
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| Pacific harbor seal, La Jolla. Image: 15765 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
A group of Pacific harbor seals swim in the Childrens Pool in La Jolla. Image: 15050 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Pacific harbor seal pup, La Jolla. Image: 15776 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
In taking this position I am in the company of a number of considerable interested parties, including Sea Shepherd Society and Humane Society of the United States and HSUS again (see page 4). Depending on the participants of the discussion, and especially at the local level, this issue can be quite complex. There are a number of factors which have entered into the discussion, including
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| A Pacific harbor seal pup hauls out on a sandy beach, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 02162 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Pacific harbor seal swims in the protected waters of Childrens Pool in La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 03016 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
A Pacific harbor seal leaves the surf to haul out on a sandy beach, La Jolla, California. This group of harbor seals, which has formed a breeding colony at a small but popular beach near San Diego, is at the center of considerable controversy. While harbor seals are protected from harassment by the Marine Mammal Protection Act and other legislation, local interests would like to see the seals leave so that people can resume using the beach. Image: 00277 Species: Phoca vitulina richardsi |
Keywords: La Jolla seals, Pacific harbor seal, Phoca vitulina richardsi, Children’s Pool, Casa Cove, La Jolla Cove, Marine Mammal Protection Act, photo, underwater photograph, seal photo.
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