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Blue whales, adult and juvenile (likely mother and calf), swimming together side by side underwater in the open ocean. Southern California Photo. Image ID: 34568 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA	San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, the distinctive pyramid shaped southern end of the island. San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, showing geologic terracing, underwater reefs and giant kelp forests Southern California Picture. Image ID: 26003 Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	A huge blue whale swims through the open ocean in this underwater photograph. The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live on Earth. Stock Photography of Southern California. Image ID: 34567 Species: Blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA

Garibaldi and golden gorgonian, with a underwater forest of giant kelp rising in the background, underwater. Photograph of Southern California. Image ID: 23432 Species: California golden gorgonian, Muricea californica, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA	Bryozoan grows on a 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. Southern California Photos. Image ID: 25395 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Aerial photo of the West End of Catalina Island Southern California Image. Image ID: 25978 Location: Catalina Island, California, USA

California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Professional stock photos of Southern California. Image ID: 02158 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Garibaldi swims in the kelp forest, sunlight filters through towering giant kelp plants rising from the ocean bottom to the surface, underwater. Pictures of Southern California. Image ID: 23419 Species: Garibaldi, Hypsypops rubicundus Location: Catalina Island, California, USA	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. Southern California Photo. Image ID: 25393 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA

Water falling from the fluke (tail) of a humpback whale as the whale dives to forage for food in the Santa Barbara Channel. Southern California Picture. Image ID: 27029 Species: Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Location: Santa Rosa Island, California, USA	Aerial photo of gray whale calf and mother. This baby gray whale was born during the southern migration, far to the north of the Mexican lagoons of Baja California where most gray whale births take place. Stock Photography of Southern California. Image ID: 29017 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Clemente, 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. Photograph of Southern California. Image ID: 25237 Species: Eureka Valley Dune Evening Primrose, Oenothera californica eurekensis, Oenothera deltoides Location: Eureka Dunes, Death Valley National Park, 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. Southern California Photos. Image ID: 23418 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Southern California Image. Image ID: 02031 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	California sea lions swim and socialize over a kelp-covered rocky reef, underwater at San Clemente Island in California's southern Channel Islands. Professional stock photos of Southern California. Image ID: 02159 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: San Clemente 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. Pictures of Southern California. Image ID: 23429 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, 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. Southern California Photo. Image ID: 34560 Species: Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, 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. Southern California Picture. Image ID: 34564 Species: Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus Location: San Diego, California, USA

Gray whale raising fluke before diving, on southern migration to calving lagoons in Baja. Stock Photography of Southern California. Image ID: 30463 Species: Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Location: San Diego, 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. Photograph of Southern California. Image ID: 23422 Species: California sea lion, Zalophus californianus Location: Santa Barbara Island, California, USA	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. Southern California Photos. Image ID: 25394 Species: Red gorgonian, Lophogorgia chilensis Location: San Clemente Island, 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. Southern California Image. Image ID: 25396 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera Location: San Clemente Island, 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 Professional stock photos of Southern California. Image ID: 30986 Species: Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera	Unidentified likely hydroid, filtering nutrients from passing ocean currents, oil rigs, southern California Pictures of Southern California. Image ID: 35078

Aggregating anemones Anthopleura elegantissima on oil rigs, southern California Southern California Photo. Image ID: 35080	Aggregating anemones Anthopleura elegantissima on oil rigs, southern California Southern California Picture. Image ID: 35081	Aggregating anemones Anthopleura elegantissima on oil rigs, southern California Stock Photography of Southern California. Image ID: 35082

San Clemente Island Pyramid Head, the distinctive pyramid shaped southern end of the island Photograph of Southern California. Image ID: 29358 Location: San Clemente Island, California, USA	Aspens show fall colors in Mineral King Valley, part of Sequoia National Park in the southern Sierra Nevada, California Southern California Photos. Image ID: 32295 Location: Mineral King, Sequoia National Park, California, USA	Aerial photo of Batiquitos Lagoon, Carlsbad. The Batiquitos Lagoon is a coastal wetland in southern Carlsbad, California. Part of the lagoon is designated as the Batiquitos Lagoon State Marine Conservation Area, run by the California Department of Fish and Game as a nature reserve Southern California Image. Image ID: 30563 Location: Carlsbad, Callifornia, USA