Tag archives: western gulls

The seabirds must’ve seen what I was seeing and were reveling in the explosion of late season winter rains and consistent fog drip on Channel Islands National Park. I was enjoying the best giant coreopsis bloom I could remember on the southeast end of Santa Cruz Island, mostly from the seat of my kayak. It […]

Not too much of it though, myself and the western gulls were growing anxious. However, all I had to do was observe and study the throngs of those hungry seabirds, and then eventually the drama unfolded. The northern elephant seal colony above San Simeon and surrounding the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse on the Central California Coast, […]