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| Del Mar Beach at Sunset, northern San Diego County. Image ID: 35098 Location: Del Mar, California, USA | Eureka Valley Dune Evening Primrose. A federally endangered plant, Oenothera californica eurekensis is a perennial herb that produces white flowers from April to June. These flowers turn red as they age. The Eureka Dunes evening-primrose is found only in the southern portion of Eureka Valley Sand Dunes system in Indigo County, California. Image ID: 25237 Species: Eureka Valley Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera californica eurekensis, Oenothera deltoides Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, USA | Delicate Arch, dusted with snow, at sunset, with the snow-covered La Sal mountains in the distance. Delicate Arch stands 45 feet high, with a span of 33 feet, atop of bowl of slickrock sandstone. Image ID: 18104 Location: Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, USA |
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| A humpback whale raises it fluke out of the water, the coast of Del Mar and La Jolla is visible in the distance. Image ID: 27142 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Del Mar, California, USA | Pacific white sided dolphin carrying drift kelp. Image ID: 00043 Species: Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Location: San Diego, California, USA | Pacific bottlenose dolphin. Image ID: 00968 Species: Bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico |
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| Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Image ID: 02435 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Milky Way arches over Delicate Arch, as stars cover the night sky. Image ID: 27850 Location: Arches National Park, Utah, USA | Aerial photo of San Dieguito Lagoon and Dog Beach. San Dieguito Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area near Del Mar in San Diego County. Image ID: 30604 Location: Del Mar, California, USA |
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| Full Moon Rising over Hotel del Coronado, known affectionately as the Hotel Del. It was once the largest hotel in the world, and is one of the few remaining wooden Victorian beach resorts. It sits on the beach on Coronado Island, seen here with downtown San Diego in the distance. It is widely considered to be one of Americas most beautiful and classic hotels. Built in 1888, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. Image ID: 29420 Location: San Diego, California, USA | Bald eagle in flight, sidelit, cloudy sky and Kenai Mountains in the background. Image ID: 22596 Species: Bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis Location: Kachemak Bay, Homer, Alaska, USA | Snow geese in flight. Image ID: 26196 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| Sandhill crane in flight, wings extended. Image ID: 26197 Species: Sandhill Crane, Grus canadensis Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese in flight, wings are blurred in long time exposure as they are flying. Image ID: 26211 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque Del Apache, Socorro, New Mexico, USA | Snow geese at dawn. Snow geese often "blast off" just before or after dawn, leaving the ponds where they rest for the night to forage elsewhere during the day. Image ID: 21800 Species: Snow goose, Chen caerulescens Location: Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, New Mexico, USA |
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| 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. Image ID: 25396 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Delicate Arch and the Moon at Sunset. The moon and clouds, with stars showing faintly in the sky, as sunset fades into night. Image ID: 27859 Location: Arches National Park, Utah, USA | Milky Way and Stars over Delicate Arch, at night, Arches National Park, Utah. Image ID: 29294 Location: Delicate Arch, Arches National Park, Utah, USA |
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| The Kelp Forest offshore of La Jolla, California. A kelp forest. Giant kelp grows rapidly, up to 2' per day, from the rocky reef on the ocean bottom to which it is anchored, toward the ocean surface where it spreads to form a thick canopy. Myriad species of fishes, mammals and invertebrates form a rich community in the kelp forest. Lush forests of kelp are found throughout California's Southern Channel Islands. Image ID: 30986 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera | Dune Evening Primrose bloom in Anza Borrego Desert State Park, during the 2017 Superbloom. Image ID: 33168 Species: Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera deltoides Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | Common Dolphin Breaching the Ocean Surface. Image ID: 34234 Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Common Dolphin Breaching the Ocean Surface. Image ID: 34235 Location: San Diego, California, USA | Common Dolphin Breaching the Ocean Surface. Image ID: 34236 Location: San Diego, California, USA | Del Mar Beach at Sunset, northern San Diego County. Image ID: 35067 Location: Del Mar, California, USA |
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| Sand verbena wildflowers on sand dunes, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Image ID: 35115 Species: Sand verbena, Abronia villosa Location: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California, USA | California poppies cover the hillsides in bright orange. Image ID: 35162 Species: California Poppy, Eschscholzia californica Location: Del Dios, San Diego, California, USA | Pyrosome in Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 35826 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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| Kelp fronds showing pneumatocysts, bouyant gas-filled bubble-like structures which float the kelp plant off the ocean bottom toward the surface, where it will spread to form a roof-like canopy. Image ID: 35827 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island. Image ID: 35830 Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Aspen trees cover Bishop Creek Canyon above Aspendel. Image ID: 35836 Location: Bishop Creek Canyon, Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, USA |
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