The Natural History of Bodega Head

    A nectophore from Hippopodius on Salmon Creek Beach.  Although this photo is from late December 2024, we saw quite a few of these necto...

    This is a record shot -- i.e., not a great photo, but one that's important for documentation.   We went for a short walk at Salmon C...

    While in Hawai'i, we walked some east-facing beaches to look for pelagic invertebrates washed ashore. Above, a small Portuguese Man ...

    Eric and I did a quick beach survey at the end of the day today as the storm was letting up.  There were thousands of By-the-wind Sailor...

    I took these photos about a week ago, but wanted to share them since this is a species often associated with warmer water conditions.   ...

Okay, last night I mentioned there were quite a few different types of gelatinous zooplankton washed up on the beach.  Although these "...

Spring winds pushed some gelatinous animals on shore yesterday.  Here are some examples, shown in order from the animals we encountered most...

    Yesterday (20 February 2021) when Eric and I walked on Salmon Creek Beach, we found lots of these horseshoe-shaped gelatinous structures...

A few nights ago , I promised to show a few more examples of the gelatinous animals that might wash ashore on local beaches at this time of ...

While walking Salmon Creek Beach on two days earlier this month (2 April and 6 April 2016), we looked down to see a few of these distinctive...

We were walking Salmon Creek Beach on 26 April 2015, and Eric said, "What is this?"  When Eric asks that question, I know it's...

During the past month, Eric and I have been finding these very distinctive gelatinous animals on the beach.  By distinctive I mean they had ...

Longer story, but we haven't been able to walk the beach lately.  But we went for a quick walk on Salmon Creek Beach after work tonight....