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Upper Yosemite Falls and lunar rainbow, moonbow. A lunar rainbow (moonbow) can be seen to the left of Yosemite Falls, where the moon illuminates the spray of the falls, Yosemite National Park, California
Mexican hogfish, adult male showing fleshy bump on head, Bodianus diplotaenia, Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)
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, Muricea californica, San Clemente Island
Sheephead wrasse, Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater, Hypsypops rubicundus, Muricea californica, San Clemente Island
Corynactis californica anemones carpet substructure of the Wreck of the HMCS Yukon in San Diego. The shipwrecks of Wreck Alley are a great place to see vast expanses of rainbow-hued Corynactis anemones. Deliberately sunk in 2000 as part of San Diego's Wreck Alley to form an artifical reef, the HMCS Yukon is a 366-foot-long former Canadian destroyer. It is encrusted with a variety of invertebrate life, including Cornyactis anemones which provide much of the color seen here, Corynactis californica
Sardines and Scad, Los Islotes, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
Mexican Barracuda, Los Islotes, Baja Califorinia, Sea of Cortez
Hard Coral, Isla Espiritu Santo, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico
Hard Coral, Isla Espiritu Santo, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico
Monofiliment Fishing Net Covers Hard Coral, Isla Espiritu Santo, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico
Hard Coral, Isla Espiritu Santo, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico
Hard Coral, Isla Espiritu Santo, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico
Two sea lions playing, mock jousting, underwater, Zalophus californianus, Sea of Cortez
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lions underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
Two sea lions playing, mock jousting, underwater, Zalophus californianus, Sea of Cortez
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lions underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lions underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
California sea lion underwater, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, Zalophus californianus
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