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Marine wildlife of Four Mile Beach

Four Mile beach on the isolated stretch of coast north of Santa Cruz is a great place for relaxing with the family, catching a few waves, and also seeing some amazing marine wild life. Over the last 10 or so years I have been surfing off and on at this beach and have seen most (if not all) of ...more ↓

Northern Fur Seal 1
Callorhinus ursinus
Great White Shark 2
Carcharodon carcharias
feather boa kelp 3
Egregia menziesii
Surfperches
Embiotocidae
Sea Otter 4
Enhydra lutris
Grey Whales 5
Eschrichtiidae
Giant Kelp 6
Macrocystis pyrifera
Humpback Whale 7
Megaptera novaeangliae
Northern Elephant Seal 8
Mirounga angustirostris
smelts and allies 9
Osmeriformes
California halibut 10
Paralichthys californicus
Harbor Seal 11
Phoca vitulina
Bottlenose Dolphin 12
Tursiops truncatus
California Sea Lion 13
Zalophus californianus

Edited by charlie dubbe, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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  • 1. (c) kqedquest, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 2. (c) Jill Matsuyama, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) Jerry Kirkhart, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 4. (c) Vicki & Chuck Rogers, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 5. (c) Blake Matheson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 6. (c) Richard Ling, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 7. (c) Michael Dawes, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 8. (c) Yathin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 9. (c) Pacific Southwest Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 10. (c) Jay Vavra, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 11. (c) Alan Vernon, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 12. (c) Jörg Wendland, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 13. (c) Isai Dominguez, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Isai Dominguez

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