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Central Coast of California - 2006 Winter Workshop
Photographs from the February, 2006 workshop.
An otter floats among kelp beds just inside the entrance of Morro Bay.
Photographed long Santa Rosa Creek Road, near the little town of Cambria. The beak looks dangerous, but the vulture only dines on carrion.
We began to noice spiderwebs glistening in the sunlight as we were walking back from our "secret" location, where we had photographed elephant seals, north of the town of Cambria
Closer to Home:
Driftwood on Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, a few minutes after the sun rose over the Coast Range Mountains.
A male northern elephant seal (mirounga angustrirotris) celebrates his prowess as as a husband. His wives are indifferent. (Photographed north of Cambria, and just south of the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse.)
A mother elephant seal barks her annoyance at a perceived slight by another female.
A male elephant seal, imposing in size but without a harem, hauled himself out of the surf, and slithered off the beach to a dry and warm patch of grass near Highway 1, not far from the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse.
Monarchs pair off at Pismo Beach, on the central coast of California.
Photographed at the Fiscalini farm, along Santa Rosa Creek Road, in the bosom of the Coast Ranges. I like this photograph, the close view from a few feet away made with a long lens.
Near the Sebastian Store, below Hearst Castle.
After a month or so, elephant seal pups are weaned from their mothers. Fattened on their mothers' milk, these pups cluster together, for companionship and perhaps warmth, on a foggy morning along the central coast of California. Pups generally remain on the beach until the potentially dangerous adult males have returned the sea. (Note the quite small seal in the middle of the pups - it appears to have a serious head wound.) These pups, on a secluded beach away from some of the more popular viewing areas, seem to share a curiosity about their human visitors.
A turkey vulture swoops low over the ground, just off Highway 1, a few miles north of the William Randolph Hearst State Park.
This friendly and rain-soaked goat lives east of the city of San Luis Obispo, in the Coast Range mountains.
Tilted strata are on display a little south of Morro Bay.
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