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Sunrise glints yellow on breaking wave, dawn surf.
Image ID: 27977
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 00627
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA | Bald eagle makes a splash while in flight as it takes a fish out of the water.
Image ID: 22584
Species: Bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis
Location: Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA |
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Sunrise breaking wave, dawn surf.
Image ID: 27979
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Sunrise breaking wave, dawn surf.
Image ID: 27993
Location: California, USA | A white tern, or fairy tern, alights on a branch at Rose Atoll in American Samoa.
Image ID: 00871
Species: Fairy tern, Gygis alba
Location: Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, American Samoa, USA |
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Hotel del Coronado with holiday Christmas night lights, 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: 27396
Location: San Diego, California, USA | Little Corona Beach, at night under a full moon, waves lit by moonlight.
Image ID: 28866
Location: Newport Beach, California, USA | Sunset light and acropora table coral on pristine tropical reef. Table coral competes for space on the coral reef by growing above and spreading over other coral species keeping them from receiving sunlight.
Image ID: 31315
Location: Wakaya Island, Lomaiviti Archipelago, Fiji |
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Sea lion underwater in beautiful sunset light.
Image ID: 31208
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico | 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: 33433
Species: Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | A green wave breaking, with sunset light filtering through.
Image ID: 19395
Location: Ponto, Carlsbad, California, USA |
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Hotel del Coronado with holiday Christmas night lights, 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. The Hotel Del 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: 36617
Pano dimensions: 5437 x 10212 |
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California Pelican flying on a wave, riding the updraft from the wave.
Image ID: 30257
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus | Breaking wave, fast motion and blur. The Wedge.
Image ID: 14354
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.
Image ID: 28959
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf.
Image ID: 30199
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Breaking wave, morning, barrel shaped surf, California.
Image ID: 27986
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA | Surf grass on the rocky reef -- appearing blurred in this time exposure -- is tossed back and forth by powerful ocean waves passing by above. San Clemente Island.
Image ID: 10237
Species: Surfgrass, Phyllospadix
Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA |
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Waves rush in at sunset, Carlsbad beach sunset and ocean waves, seascape, dusk, summer.
Image ID: 27974
Location: Carlsbad, California, USA | Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf.
Image ID: 30187
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA | Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.
Image ID: 22142
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater.
Image ID: 23419
Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus
Location: Catalina Island, California, USA | Scripps Pier, predawn abstract study of pier pilings and moving water.
Image ID: 26340
Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA | A large, powerful wave breaks with offshore winds at the Wedge in Newport Beach.
Image ID: 18706
Location: The Wedge, Newport Beach, California, USA |
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Guadalupe Island at sunrise, panorama. Volcanic coastline south of Pilot Rock and Spanish Cove, near El Faro lighthouse.
Image ID: 28758
Location: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), Baja California, Mexico
Pano dimensions: 4224 x 25926 |
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Broken Hill in soft pre-dawn light, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Torrey Pines State Reserve. La Jolla and Mount Soledad in the distance.
Image ID: 36564
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Broken Hill by the first light of dawn, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and Torrey Pines State Reserve.
Image ID: 36567
Location: Torrey Pines State Reserve, San Diego, California, USA | Brown pelican flying over waves and the surf.
Image ID: 30193
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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Brown pelican in flight. The wingspan of the brown pelican is over 7 feet wide. The California race of the brown pelican holds endangered species status. In winter months, breeding adults assume a dramatic plumage.
Image ID: 15371
Species: Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus
Location: La Jolla, California, USA |
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