My trip to Santa Cruz Island (DU DEATH!!!)

[Snakeman]

last field trip of the semester



california sea lion poking its head out


there it is....


humpback whales!!!

mother and calf














this shot would've been national geographic style had the boat not rocked the second i snapped this pic


and even the baby gave us a show


and they said goodbye by "flipping" us off

[Snakeman]

some side-blotched lizards
































a lot of the ground looked like this


sticky monkey

[LadyOhh]

Very nice photos!!!

[Snakeman]

still water with tadpoles and watre striders






bombadeer beetle


who knows what this was.....










some mineral deposits




diatomes - prehistoric plankton




wooly bear catterpillar, turns into a tiger moth


and when i came back......

[LadyOhh]

That bone looks like a piece of a hip bone of something...

[invadertoast]

Ewwww do I see an earwig?? Nice pics! I absolutely love Humpbacks

[LadyOhh]

I LOVE GREBES!!!

[Snakeman]

That bone looks like a piece of a hip bone of something...

i think it's from the pigs that used to be there before they were taken off the island

[Beardedragon]

That bone looks like a piece of a hip bone of something...

My first thought was some sort of whale spine bone