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Nature Nooks: Morro Bay

https://soundcloud.com/user-210939374-242894923/nature-nooks-morro-bay Most days the beach is blanketed in fog in Morro Bay. It's this gloomy atmosphere that keeps the crowds down and the beach calm. For others like experienced surfer... read more →

April 28, 2021
Marcus Cocova
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Beach, Environment, Lifestyle, Outdoor Recreation, Photography

Nature Nooks: Montaña De Oro

https://soundcloud.com/user-210939374-242894923/ccspa-wots-1 Forest trees, sandy dunes, and ocean water all meet at Montaña De Oro State Park. It is this diversity in landscape that draws out nature enthusiasts like Cal Poly... read more →

March 12, 2021
Marcus Cocova
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Beach, Environment, Lifestyle, Outdoor Recreation, Photography

“Sea Pickles” Invade Local Beaches

Every walk on Morro Strand State Beach is an adventure. On December 24 while strolling along looking at birds I noticed some most unusual organisms at my feet. Dozens of... read more →

December 29, 2020
Norma Wightman
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Beach, Flora and Fauna, Invertebrates, Marine Biology, Photography, Species Identification, Uncategorized

Who Would Eat a Plant That Makes Soap?

So much more than a delicate wildflower, this plant deserves its four names: ‘wavy leaf soap plant,” “soap root,” “amole,” and Chlorogalum pomeridianum or “afternoon blooming green milk.” And it’s... read more →

November 4, 2020
Sara Kelly
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Botany, Flora and Fauna, Herbal remedies, Photography, Species Identification, Uncategorized

News from the Beach #6

Palm trees in the ocean? Surely you jest! Nope-just a different type of palm-a seaweed one. Postelsia palmaeformis, the sea palm, is a dead ringer for a land-type palm tree. It lives in the... read more →

October 5, 2020
Faylla Chapman
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Beach, Botany, Education, Environment, Flora and Fauna, Marine Biology, Photography, Species Identification, Uncategorized

News from the Beach #5

Sandcastles? Worms? These go together? Well, sandcastles are not just for kids. The sandcastle worm, Phragmatopoma californica lives in massive sand formations on rocks in the mid intertidal area. You... read more →

September 15, 2020
Faylla Chapman
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Beach, Education, Environment, Flora and Fauna, Invertebrates, Marine Biology, Photography, Uncategorized

The Tarantula Hawk

These are one of the larger wasps in the world with females getting up to two inches in length and having large blue-black muscular bodies with bright orange wings. Quite... read more →

September 11, 2020
Claudia Freitas
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Environment, Flora and Fauna, Outdoor Recreation, Photography, Species Identification

Look out for Black and White Waders

I’m lucky to live near Morro Strand, so most mornings find me striding along the beach, binoculars at hand ready for anything that comes into view. A few days ago... read more →

September 2, 2020
Norma Wightman
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Beach, Environment, Flora and Fauna, Photography, Species Identification

Spider Seasons

Photo by Linda Tanner The tarantulas are showing up on the central coast. From mid-July on through November you have a chance of seeing one of these large, hairy spiders... read more →

August 28, 2020
Claudia Freitas
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Flora and Fauna, Lifestyle, Outdoor Recreation, Photography, Species Identification

Why Are the Waves Glowing BLUE???

We’ve had a new treat on the Central Coast in the past few years--glowing blue waves!!! The glow is caused by wave action that disturbs millions of microalgae called dinoflagellates,... read more →

August 21, 2020
Karen Watts
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Beach, Environment, Flora and Fauna, Invertebrates, Marine Biology, Photography, Uncategorized

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