The Natural History of Bodega Head

    During a field trip to Tomales Bay on 17 August 2023, Melissa spotted this small yellowish-green sea hare crawling on some eelgrass ( Zo...

    I love seeing this sea hare, especially up close, when you can see the bright blue-green spots (and tiny orange dots, too, if you look c...

    Eric's class was conducting a nudibranch survey recently, and thanks to Zoe's sharp eyes we were introduced to an interesting se...

    A wonderful close-up of Aplysiopsis enteromorphae , a sap-sucking sea slug found locally in Bodega Bay last week.  I wrote about this sp...

Last September I posted about an interesting "sap-sucking sea slug" called Aplysiopsis enteromorphae .  The photographs accompanyi...

Several days ago, Peter was showing me some algae that he had collected on the tidal flats in Bodega Harbor.  When he picked it up, a small ...

When the low tides are this good, it's sometimes hard to stop looking.  On 23 June, I checked one more site and noticed something unusua...