Nereocystis lutkeana

Bull kelp growing in beds along the beach, and washed up all globular, silky smooth and wet.

Two Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes and gas bladders (pneumatocysts) washed up on a sand beach.
Two Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes and gas bladders (pneumatocysts) washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)gas bladder(pneumatocyst) washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes and gas bladders (pneumatocysts) washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes and gas bladders (pneumatocysts) washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes and gas bladders (pneumatocysts) washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes and gas bladders (pneumatocysts) washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes,gas bladders and holdfasts washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipe, frond and gas bladder (pneumatocyst) washed up on a sand beach.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipe, frond and gas bladder (pneumatocyst) washed up on the rocks.
Two Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipes.
Tiny, immature Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)stipe, frond and gas bladder (pneumatocyst) held by Miles.
Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed canopy on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)beds just offshore, exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)beds just offshore, exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)beds just offshore, exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)beds just offshore, exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana)exposed on the surface at low tide.
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Nereocystis lutkeana