Always to the frontier

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Wednesday Filler: Kelp Strand off of Point Loma

I was rummaging through some pictures taken at Cabrillo National Monument in San Diego and came across this lovely shot of the top of a giant kelp strand.

The waters off of southern California are wonderful.  They can be quite cool, even in the summer months, as the California current brings a chill southward from the Gulf of Alaska, but this ends up being rather life-giving.  On trips to various beaches, I have never failed to see at least some marine life offshore, and it is all the best kind for swimmers, mostly mammals.  Even if the sea life is not readily visible from the surface, it teems below, in patches of kelp such as this one.

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