Bobcat by Cleve Nash

Bobcat by Cleve Nash

Snowy Egrets by Alan Schmierer

Goats and Dogs at Point Buchon
by Jeanie Greensfelder

Peregrine Falcon Image on Banner by Cleve Nash

A Bird's Eye View by Mike Stiles

Guten tag.  I'm writing this from a sixth floor flat overlooking the Kreuzberg region of Berlin. I can see at least six church steeples, some with clock faces and one with a copper dome, rising over the sea of red roofs.  The large, dark Common Swifts dive quickly through my field of view. The Fernsehturm, a TV tower just over 1200 feet tall, is Berlin's tallest structure and seems very much out of place.  Read More

California State Parks

Have you been wanting to get outdoors more and have a fabulous time? These "Adventures With Nature" events surely have something perfect for you. Read More

Elfin Forest by Jean Wheeler

I n this uncommonly dry year, the shrubs in the Elfin Forest are showing signs of the drought stress. Yet flowers still decorate many of them. Black sage, one of the most abundant shrubs, is in bloom with pompoms of pale lavender to white blossoms. Chamise is also in bloom with spikes of white flowers. Contrasting with these are bright yellow and orange of poppies, deerweed, sticky monkey-flowers, coastal dudleya, and golden yarrow (a different species than the infamous allergy producer). June's blue flowers of silver dune lupine and wooly star should continue into July, although much less abundantly than in wetter years. Pink flowers are spikes of California hedge nettle and cobwebby thistle. Indian pinks (flower edges serrated as if by pinking shears) are red flowers in the chaparral.  Read More

Marine Sanctuaries by Carol Georgi & Karl Kempton

The health of the marine ecosystems in Hanalei Bay and San Luis Bay are seriously threatened by decades of pollution that continue from many sources, including compounded years of pesticides from agricultural runoff, wastewater outfall, toxic sediment, mud, and other pollution flowing through the watersheds to the bays. Read More

Whale Watch Adventures by Rouvaishyana

After heading nearly nine miles offshore, we found two blue whales, a mother and calf, at about four and a half miles from the harbor entrance.  It had taken us three hours to find the whales.  Our trips are generally three to three and a half hours, but we didn’t want to shortchange anyone, so we asked everyone how they would feel about spending some time with the whales.  Naturally everyone wanted to.  We stayed with the whales about 45 min., then went back to Morro Bay.  This trip lasted four and a half hours. Read More

 

Female Elephant Seals in
Dispute Over Space by Kevin Cole

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