Thankful For This Remarkable Ocean Planet

McWay Falls, California. Photo copyright Paul Jimerson Carrying Our Words We travel carrying our words.We arrive at the ocean.With our words we are able to speakof the sounds of thunderous waves.We speak of how majestic it is,of the ocean power that gifts us songs.We sing of our respectand call it our relative. ~ Ofelia Zepeda, …

Pic o’ the Week, World Ocean Day Edition: Emerald Ocean Dreamscape

An emerald wave crashes into the steel-blue sea, ocean water streams white down craggy coastal rocks, a seagull flies low, light fog blankets it all. This ethereal shot at Point Reyes by Paul Jimerson captures the exquisite beauty of our remarkable ocean. "It’s a favorite of mine, in part because it reminds me of that …

Pic o’ the Week: Glowing Waves Under the Milky Way, Big Sur, California

  After a head-on car collision left him struggling to walk, photographer George Krieger found that strolling the nearby coast and snapping photos was a good form of therapy. He calls it his "Passion Therapy." And it placed him on California's Big Sur coastline recently as the natural phenomenon of bioluminescence was producing glowing waves …

Pic o’ the Week: Squid School

When Jon Schwartz and his buddy Josh Pruitt went kayaking off La Jolla, Calfornia one day, they happened upon this surprising shoal of squid. It massed around Josh's kayak, and the men were curious - why were the squid apparently fascinated with the kayak? What happened next was one of those rare encounters some lucky …

Ode to Kelp

The Tuft of Kelp All dripping in tangles green, Cast up by a lonely sea If purer for that, O Weed, Bitterer, too, are ye? - by Herman Melville - photo by David Wollum Torrey Pines State Beach, San Diego, California