California State Parks (438 images)
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Thistle in Tall Grass...JPG
A bull thistle is surrounded by tall grasses at...
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Cement Ship IMG_1975.JPG
The California State Parks website sheds light...
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Brown Pelican over Sp...JPG
A Brown pelican flies over the glistening,...
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Three Months Later - ...JPG
Gulls continue the process, nature's...
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Three Months Later IM...JPG
A blue whale carcass, three months after it was...
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Castle Crags B&W IMG_...JPG
Castle Crags slashes a ragged line on the...
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Wish I Could Fly Too ...JPG
A gull in flight against a verdant background...
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Whimbrels Stepping Th...JPG
Whimbrels at Pomonio State Beach wander through...
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Snowy Plover - Into t...JPG
This banded snowy plover treks into the wind at...
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Snowy Plover Fluff - ...JPG
A snowy plover has just found a new spot to...
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Snowy Plover Fluffs -...JPG
A snowy plover has just found a new spot to...
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Snowy Plover Fluff - ...JPG
All done - a snowy plover has setteled into a...
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Snowy Plover Watching...JPG
Only the size of a sparrow, the western snow...
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Snowy Plovers and Dri...JPG
Three western snowy plovers on the beach at...
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Snowy Plover on Beach...JPG
Two Western snowy plovers on the beach at...
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Snowy Plover - Center...JPG
A Western snowy plover on the beach at Pigeon...
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Snowy Plover - Right ...JPG
A Western snowy plover on the beach at Pigeon...
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Snowy Plover - Left S...JPG
A Western snowy plover on the beach at Pigeon...
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Tafoni-8 IMG_5551.JPG
Tafoni etched sandstone at Bean Hollow State...
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Tafoni-7 IMG_5547.JPG
A wave crashes into and over the rocks off...
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Tafoni-6 IMG_5534.JPG
Tafoni caves etched in the bluff at Bean Hollow...
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Tafoni-5 IMG_5533-Edi...JPG
Along a bluff at Bean Hollow State Beach, tiny...
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Tafoni-4 IMG_5528.JPG
Lichen, yellow, blue, green and orange, accent...
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Tafoni-3 IMG_5527.JPG
Lichen, yellow, blue, green and orange, accent...
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Tafoni-2 IMG_5510.JPG
Exposed layers and tafoni formations at Bean...
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Tafoni-1 IMG_5507.JPG
For some, naturally occurring tafoni formations...
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Gull with Night Sky (...jpg
In Photoshop, the background behind a Western...
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IMG_5089.JPG
A Red-tailed hawk sits on a power line pole at...
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Lighthouse IMG_2345-2.jpg
Under clear blue skies and a bright blazing sun...
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Leucistic Black Oyste...jpg
A leucistic (pale, though not albino) Black...
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Sanderlings IMG_2313-...jpg
Typical Sanderling behavior, race away from the...
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Artist IMG_5068-2.jpg
Most come to the coast to look at the ocean....
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Tafoni-IMG_2814-19.tif
Tafoni: holes, caves, etched in the sandstone...
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Lighthouse Grass CRW_...tif
Wind whips grass in the foreground at Pigeon...
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Pigeon Point LH IMG_3...tif
With purple and yellow flowers in the...
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Pigeon Point LH IMG_3...tif
With purple and yellow flowers in the...
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How far to Tahiti IMG...jpg
On a cold and damp morning, a reminder that...
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LIghthouse IMG_3084-1.jpg
Ice plant, non-native invader, drops a mostly...
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Lighthouse IMG_3085-2.jpg
A field of flowers and plants leads up to the...
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Lighthouse IMG_3087-3.jpg
A field of flowers and plants leads up to the...
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Raindrop lighthouse I...jpg
Raindrops dangle from a branch, some holding...
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Black Oystercatcher C...jpg
On the rocks near Pigeon Point Lighthouse this...
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Burgeoning Cloud IMG_...jpg
Growing from the east, a cloud moves slowly...
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Pigeon Point - Soft L...jpg
Pigeon Point Lightstation as the moon set and...
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Moon Over Pigeon Poin...jpg
Pigeon Point Lighthouse at sunrise with a...
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Deserted Beach IMG_76...jpg
Early in the morning, the beach is clean -...
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Sandy Beach IMG_7612.jpg
Like hungry animals, the craggy bluffs look as...
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Wildflowers and Pigeo...jpg
Pigeon Point Light Station with yellow...
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Pigeon Point GBH IMG_...jpg
A great blue heron hunts among the rocks and...
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Pigeon Point GBH IMG_...jpg
A great blue heron hunts among the rocks and...
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Pigeon Point GBH IMG_...jpg
A great blue heron hunts among the rocks and...
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Montara Light Station...jpg
Short and stubby by the usual lighthouse...
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Yellow Wildflowers IM...jpg
Wildflowers cling to the bluff along the beach...
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Sunset at Pigeon Poin...jpg
The light station, lighthouse, at Pigeon Point...
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Sunset Ocean and Ligh...jpg
The light station, lighthouse, at Pigeon Point...
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Artist IMG_5074-3.jpg
Edwin Bertolet painting in the plein air style...
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Bufflehead IMG_2508
A Bufflehead duck paddles around the relative...
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Sea Gull Lunch CRW_61...JPG
For well over half an hour this Western Gull...
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Great Blue Heron IMG_...tif
Wngs outstretched, a Great Blue Heron takes off...
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Great Blue Heron IMG_...tif
Great Blue Heron's can have a wingspan as big...
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Great Blue Heron IMG_...tif
A great blue heron, with nothing more than...
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Pomponio waves IMG_33...tif
Waves crash into the bluffs at Pomponio State...
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Montara Beach IMG_332...tif
The first day of storms set to pound the coast...
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Montara Beach IMG_333...tif
The first day of storms set to pound the coast...
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Empty Beach IMG_2964-...tif
The rolling surf of the Pacific draws the...
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Western gull with a m...JPG
This Western Gull, trying to make lunch of a...
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Sandprints-IMG_2622-1.jpg
A little after sunrise, and two and a half...
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Seagull Checking Wave...jpg
A Western gull casts a backward glance, as if...
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Seagull and Waves IMG...jpg
A Western gull surveys its domain while the...
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Spring at the Coast I...jpg
A path meanders along the bluff at Bean Hollow...
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Mountain Sunrise IMG_...jpg
Santa Cruz Mountains at sunrise, from the...
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Santa Cruz Mountain S...jpg
Mellow sunrise light bathes the Santa Cruz...
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Paraglider IMG_2024-1.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2025-2.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2026-3.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2027-4.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2028-5.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2029-6.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2030-7.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2031-8.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2032-9.jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2033-1...jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2034-1...jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2035-1...jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2036-1...jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2037-1...jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2039-1...jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Paraglider IMG_2040-1...jpg
Paraglider Timothy Barnes prepared his...
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Coast Buckwheat IMG_7...jpg
Coast Buckwheat, but its scientific name is...
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Coast Buckwheat IMG_7...jpg
Coast Buckwheat, but its scientific name is...
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Mass of Whale Flesh I...jpg
Rounding the rocks of the cove, the first view...
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Gulls Feeding IMG_107...jpg
Adult and juvenile Western gulls feeding on the...
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Sand Sea and Shore IM...JPG
Sand and sea meet at the shoreline at Bean...
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Ice Plant IMG_2297-1.tif
Though non-native to the Pacific coast, ice...
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Gull says Do Not Do T...jpg
It is easy to imagine this Western gull casting...
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Ominous Tranquility I...jpg
North of Pigeon Point Lighthouse, ominous...
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Blue Whale, Waves and...jpg
A wave startles some of the feeding gulls into...
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Dead Blue Whale - Ful...jpg
Evidence of the necropsy - the lower one-third,...
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IMG_1087.jpg
An immature Western gull, one of the many gulls...
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Dead Blue Whale on it...jpg
Viewed from the head-end of the whale, its...
