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| California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave. Image ID: 30313 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath. Image ID: 21253 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath. Image ID: 34560 Species: Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath. Image ID: 34564 Species: Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA | California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave. Image ID: 30262 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus | California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave. Image ID: 30277 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus |
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| California Brown Pelican flying over a breaking wave. Image ID: 30374 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Cardiff morning surf, breaking wave. Image ID: 23295 Location: Cardiff by the Sea, California, USA | 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 |
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| Blue whale, exhaling as it surfaces from a dive, aerial photo. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth, exceeding 100' in length and 200 tons in weight. Image ID: 25953 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: Redondo Beach, California, USA | Dawn patrol morning surf, hollow wave. Image ID: 20797 Location: Cardiff by the Sea, California, USA | Blue whale, exhaling in a huge blow as it swims at the surface between deep dives. The blue whale's blow is a combination of water spray from around its blowhole and condensation from its warm breath. Image ID: 21249 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| Sunset and incoming surf, gorgeous colors in the sky and on the ocean at dusk, the incoming waves are blurred in this long exposure. Image ID: 27159 Location: Carlsbad, California, USA | 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 | Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf. Image ID: 30186 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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| California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave. Image ID: 30279 Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus | Scripps Pier, sunrise. Image ID: 26456 Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA | Male elephant seals (bulls) rear up on their foreflippers and fight in the surf for access for mating females that are in estrous. Such fighting among elephant seals can take place on the beach or in the water. They bite and tear at each other on the neck and shoulders, drawing blood and creating scars on the tough hides. Image ID: 20369 Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA |
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| Breaking wave, tube, hollow barrel, morning surf. Image ID: 19534 | Breaking wave, tube, hollow barrel, morning surf. Image ID: 19535 | Tube, Cylinders, the Wedge. Image ID: 16996 Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA |
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| Waves rush in at sunset, Carlsbad beach sunset and ocean waves, seascape, dusk, summer. Image ID: 27971 Location: Carlsbad, California, USA | Common Dolphin Breaching the Ocean Surface. Image ID: 34234 Location: San Diego, California, USA | Common Dolphin Breaching the Ocean Surface. Image ID: 34235 Location: San Diego, California, USA |
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| Common Dolphin Breaching the Ocean Surface. Image ID: 34236 Location: San Diego, California, USA | 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 | Rain hitting ocean surface from underneath, Grand Cayman Island. Image ID: 32202 Location: Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands |
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| Giant kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Small gas bladders -- pneumatocysts -- connect the kelp's stipes ("stems") to its blades ("leaves"). These bladders help elevate the kelp plant from the bottom, towards sunlight and the water's surface. Image ID: 33439 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Giant kelp frond showing pneumatocysts. Small gas bladders -- pneumatocysts -- connect the kelp's stipes ("stems") to its blades ("leaves"). These bladders help elevate the kelp plant from the bottom, towards sunlight and the water's surface. Image ID: 33440 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | 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. Image ID: 33441 Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: Catalina Island, California, USA |
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