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Water falling from the fluke (tail) of a humpback whale as the whale dives to forage for food in the Santa Barbara Channel.
Image ID: 27029
Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae
Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA | California sea lion, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions.
Image ID: 23418
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 02435
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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California sea lions, socializing/resting, Webster Point rookery, Santa Barbara Island, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.
Image ID: 06284
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions.
Image ID: 23429
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lions, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions.
Image ID: 23422
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by.
Image ID: 35825
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Pyrosome in Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island.
Image ID: 35826
Location: Santa Barbara Island, 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 |
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Red gorgonian on rocky reef, below kelp forest, underwater. The red gorgonian is a filter-feeding temperate colonial species that lives on the rocky bottom at depths between 50 to 200 feet deep. Gorgonians are oriented at right angles to prevailing water currents to capture plankton drifting by.
Image ID: 35828
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island.
Image ID: 35830
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Webster Point, Santa Barbara Island, aerial photograph.
Image ID: 29365
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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Santa Barbara Island, aerial photograph.
Image ID: 29359
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Santa Barbara Island, aerial photograph.
Image ID: 29361
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Santa Barbara Island, aerial photograph.
Image ID: 29368
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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Santa Barbara Island, aerial photograph.
Image ID: 29371
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | A California sea lion plays with a piece of kelp, underwater at Santa Barbara Island. Santa Barbara Island, 38 miles off the coast of southern California, is part of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and Channel Islands National Park. It is home to a large population of sea lions.
Image ID: 23427
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp Forest, Santa Barbara Island.
Image ID: 35829
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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A SCUBA diver enters a submarine cavern at Santa Barbara Island, underwater cave.
Image ID: 23423
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, juveniles at play in kelp forest.
Image ID: 00619
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp frond in motion, time exposure.
Image ID: 02344
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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Kelp frond showing pneumatocysts.
Image ID: 02436
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | Kelp stipe and blades.
Image ID: 02498
Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion.
Image ID: 02951
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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California bat ray swimming amidst giant kelp forest.
Image ID: 03414
Species: California bat ray, Myliobatis californica, Macrocystis pyrifera
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, Webster Point rookery.
Image ID: 03803
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, Webster Point rookery.
Image ID: 03804
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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California sea lion, Webster Point rookery.
Image ID: 03807
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, Webster Point rookery.
Image ID: 03811
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA | California sea lion, Webster Point rookery.
Image ID: 03812
Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus
Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA |
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