a wilderness journal

Mid-May had a fantastic tide series and I was able to explore the rocky intertidal twice. My first early morning stop was on a Sunday at Luf...

There are fantastic low morning tides in the northeastern Pacific this week and I came out to the central California coast very early thi...

Felimeda macfarlandi , a chromodorid nudibranch at Cambria. This month I’m repeating my spring road trip through the southwest, but op...

Pigeon Point in San Mateo County, CA is one of my favorite tidepooling locations and I have visited this area for many years. In late M...

In some respects, red seaweeds (Phylum Rhodophyta) are the most interesting of the three major groups of marine algae inhabiting coastal s...

Monday 26 Feb 2018 : Big Sur revealed its different faces today as a morning overcast sky gave way to drizzle, rain by early afternoon, an...

Rocky intertidal at Pt Pinos, with pelicans cruising in  from the east. The Monterey Peninsula juts out into the Pacific Ocean at the...

As populated as California is, there are still remote areas that have relatively fewer people, especially in the northern half of the stat...

At the end of my trip through the southwest, I shifted from National Parks and lizards and desert wildflowers to marine life of the central...