2011-06 Zuma Dolphins

A glassy day with interesting clouds and crazy bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that my friend Maddalena Bearzi says are "socializing." Thanks, Maddalena! Oh, and also the 1st Gray Whale of the season. Wow!

Santa Catalina in the background.
Tursiops truncatus jump wave Sta Catalina 2011 Zuma 382
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave WIDE 2011 Zuma 076
This is an enlargement of the previous image.
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave CROP 2011 Zuma 076
Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) at dawn.
Pelecanus occidentalis dawn 2011 Zuma 001
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 365
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 310
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Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 328
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave WIDE 2011 Zuma 049
This is an enlargement of the previous image.
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave CROP 2011 Zuma 049
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 016
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave head 2011 Zuma 215
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave 2011 Zuma 217
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Three.
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave 2011 Zuma 075
Tursiops truncatus antics CROP 2011 Zuma 101
Tursiops truncatus antics CROP 2011 Zuma 323
Leo Carrillo (Secos) Point in the background.
Tursiops truncatus antics WIDE 2011 Zuma 323
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 179
Tursiops truncatus stand paddler 2011 Zuma 231
Attention MHS students: be the first to email me with the correct ID of these two specimens and win a bonus point. In your email, use scientific names only and say "left shell = " and "right shell = " Who's yer daddy? (don't answer that)
Donax Tivela shell specimens 2011 Zuma 006
clouds 2011 Zuma 002
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 204
Gray Whale (Eschrichtiuis robustus) tail flukes about a mile offshore.
Eschrichtius robustus inset enlarged 2011 Zuma 006
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 276
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 306
Sygnathus californiensis, a Kelp Pipefish.
Sygnathus californiensis pipefish 2011 Zuma 036
Tursiops truncatus antics 2011 Zuma 313
Tursiops truncatus antics tail fluke CROP 2011 Zuma 224
Tursiops truncatus antics surfer 2011 Zuma 354
Tursiops truncatus antics WIDE 2011 Zuma 101
Tursiops truncatus antics tail fluke WIDE 2011 Zuma 224
Tursiops truncatus leap surfer 2011 Zuma 381
Santa Barbara Island in the background.
Tursiops truncatus leap Sta Barbara Island 2011 Zuma 376
A Brandt's Cormorant (Phalocrocorax penicillatus) is in the water in front of the wave.
Tursiops truncatus surfing wave 2011 Zuma 053
Tursiops truncatus wave surfer 2011 Zuma 320
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Afternoon.
wave sunrise 2011 Zuma 008
glasssy wave 2011 Zuma 012
1st Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) of the 2011 season...southbound, about a mile off the beach.
Eschrichtius robustus inset enlarged 2011 Zuma 009
View from Zuma: Tiny Anacapa Island is the small, dark island in the middle, and big ol' Santa Cruz is everything else. If you look closely you can see the radar dome on top of Blue Banks Anchorage.
Anacapa Sta Cruz Island panorama 2011 Zuma 386

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