
Category: California

Kingfishers are one of those birds that I have so rarely been able to get photo of, and even more rarely good photos. This female belted kingfisher (you can tell it is a female by the rusty band across her belly) was photographed at the…

I guess we’re going to do a “Duck Week” here… Today we’ll look at some Cinnamon Teals. I first saw some at the Arcata Marshes in California, and then some more in that same spot where I saw the Ring-necked Ducks I shared the other…

Like all the other posts recently, this one was pre-scheduled… and since it is looking like my time in Yellowstone and Grand Teton will be spent in some rather cold camping conditions, I figure I might be dreaming that I was back in the desert…

Happy Mother’s Day! I intentionally held back a couple of these since they seem fitting for some Mother’s Day photos. Enjoy!

I shared a couple photos of this species of duck before, but let’s take a look at some more…

More from the archives… These shots of Green-winged Teals are from a visit to Arcata Marshes during my trip through California.

On our drive down to Monterey, Ashley mentioned that she and Jake had done a dive on the Smith River outside of Crescent City, CA as a spot called the Slant River Bridge. We thought about trying to stop and hit the dive on the…



And now for some videos… The first video is from the encounter with the sea otter mom and her baby that I got to watch for a while at the Breakwater jetty, it was a bit rainy and windy, but I did the best I…

When mom is taking care of the babies definitely was extra extra cute!

There were plenty of babies around, which definitely increased the cuteness levels… Fun fact – baby sea otter fur is so dense that they literally can’t sink and I don’t think they can even intentionally swim down, so it is a safety thing for the…

I’ve got a couple days worth of Sea Otter photos, and they’re just going to get more and more adorable, so let’s get to it…

On another non-diving day in Monterey, we took a short trip to Pinnacles National Park. We didn’t have a ton of time, so I suggested we hike the Balconies Cliffs and Cave Trail which was a rather cool trail with a nice section through some…
