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#homer #fishing #Sports #kachemakbay #kingsalmon #homerwinterkingsalmontournament
Orange ochre rocks in a bag sit on rocky beach w view of mountains in view across the water of Kachemak Bay
A great day to “forage” rocks from Bishops Beach for my upcoming pigment-making classes! #homer #alaska #kachemakbay #sciart #pigment
Everything frozen
deep in the mountain’s pocket
solstice sun stirring
#apprenticetolight
#GrianstadanGheimhridh
#kachemakbay
Humpback whale beginning a breach. Pectoral fins just clearing the water. Pleats along throat visible.
Some days just end w magic. A mother humpback and calf gave us a playful show tonight. 🦑 #alaska #tutkabay #kachemakbay
Closeup of Pinkish red surface covered with hundreds of translucent finger-like tubes extending from seastar surface.
Seastar (Pisaster ochraceus) in water w gills extended across its surface. ##marinelife #intertidal #kachemakbay #alaska 🦑
🚨 WILDLIFE ALERT: We're hearing reports of sick kittiwakes + other animals in Kachemak Bay.
Please:
⚠️ Don’t touch wildlife
🐕 Keep dogs away
📲 Report sightings—your info helps!
Instructions + Details + bird hotline: bit.ly/4lZokiU
#kachemakbay #WildlifeSafety #cookinletkeeper
Spruce trees, red roofed boathouse on stilts and elevated boardwalk surrounding tidal lagoon. Refection of all in glassy water.
Morning view #tutkabaylodge #kachemakbay #alaska
A fishing boat crosses Kachemak Bay choppy waters.
#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #Videography #Clouds #Mountains #HomerSpit #AlaskaSky #LandsEndResort #KachemakBay
A cloud of mist appears after a humpback whale spouts. The humpback’s tail is visible above the water’s surface after it dives. Background is deep blue cliffs.
For #BlueSkyMonday, from a trip to Alaska… a humpback whale’s flukes appear after spouting on Kachemak Bay one morning.
#ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #whales #Alaska #KachemakBay #blue #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography
Plankton: Rectangles in a spiral chain.
Plankton composed of rectangles in a chain, each rectangle has small circular cellular material
Plankton composed of four wide rectangles stacked. Each rectangle has two rows of spheres of yellow green cellular material. Thin hairlike mobility appendages are in pairs at the intersection if each rectangular segment
Plankton: oval shapes filled w yellow, green cellular material in a chain connected by short hairlike fibers
Plankton tow near our Tutka Bay dock yielded these beauties under the microscope. #marinelife #plankton #kachemakbay #tutkabaylodge #alaska
Chiton w blue lines on its plates. S pink coiled worm on one plate
Oval shaped Chiton w green girdle, overlapping plates are orange to brown w white curvy lines
Green-brown girdle w nubby protrusions. Plates are olive green w cream colored triangles
Chiton w Speckled girdle w yellow spots, plates mostly brown w thin blue lines and three plates have narrow white triangle
Today’s minus tide superstars are the chitons! #marinelife 🦑 #intertidal #minustide #kachemakbay #alaska #tutkabay
Family dining. Sea Otters, Kachemak Bay, Alaska
1/1250 sec; f/10; ISO 1000; 400mm; Nikon Z9; Tamron 50-400mm; Nikon Z9; Tamron 50-400mm Z lens; Cotton Carrier #harnessyourphotography #withmytamron #tamron50400 #seaotter #seaotters #kachemakbay #alaska #marinemammal #marinemammals
Pink algae on carapace of Umbrella crab. Sort of looks like a flying spaceship... large mid-ridge, and wings to either side, "beak" in middle toward front (covers the head of the crab)
Tan w small specles carapace of Umbrella crab. Sort of looks like a flying spaceship... large mid-ridge, and wings to either side, "beak" in middle toward front (covers the head of the crab)
Orange carapace of Umbrella crab. Sort of looks like a flying spaceship... large mid-ridge, and wings to either side, "beak" in middle toward front (covers the head of the crab)
Underside of Umbrella Crab shell showing the crab's claw and legs.
A great minus tide in Kachemak Bay today. Found the first Umbrella Crab I've seen on Hesketh Island. Then, right next to it was a second, and then a third! #intertidal #crab #CryptolithodesSitchensis #alaska #kachemakbay #marinelife 🦑
Large, brown sea lion hauled out on rocks using its hind flippers to reach up and scratch at its chin level.
"Ahhhh. Finally got that itch," relieved Sea lion. #wildlifephotography #stellersealion #flatisland #kachemakbay #alaska 🦑
Hummingbird with orange/buff back, breast, and head. Red at throat. Sitting on edge of hummingbird feeder with beak and tongue inside the plastic flower delivering the liquid.
I love the different textures, shapes, and colors of this hummingbird's feathers. #KachemakBay #Alaska #Birds #BirdsofAlaska #hummingbird #rufousHummingbird 🪶
Seastars and Christmas Anemones in Kachemak Bay, Alaska. #marinelife #kachemakbay #homeralaska #seakayaking
At low tide, so no water, an anemone on a rock with stomach extended and attempting to eat a dying salmon.
Why yes, this IS yet another anemone eating something weird. Eating a salmon. Probably not too hard to catch a post-spawn, dying salmon, but still. 🦑 #marinelife #kachemakbay #alaska #anemone #salmon
Alpine boulder field w very camouflaged bird near center.
Can you find the Rock Ptarmigan in this photo? I promise, it is in there. #BirdsOfAlaska #Alaska #wildlifecamouflage #GraceRidge #KachemakBay
Dozens of burgundy and orange seastars clinging to a rocky cliff during low tide.
I don't have cats, so here's a lovely photo of a galaxy of seastars for you to enjoy (yes, that's really what a group of seastars is called). 🦑 #seastars #Alaska #KachemakBay
Bald Eagle, Kachemak Bay, Alaska
1/2500 sec; f/8; ISO 1600; 230mm; Nikon Z9; Nikkor 180-600mm lens; #HarnessYourPhotography #coldwateralaska #baldeagle #eagle #eagles #alaska #kachemakbay
that time we dabbled in limpet husbandry 🌊
#illustration #kachemakbay #alaska #procreate #madeinalasma
Line of orca fins in turquoise waters of alaska
Four orca fins bunched up closely together as they swim
Orca as it breaches away from stern of boat. So close camera lens could not fit it all in.
4 orca flukes, one a calf, swimming w coast and houses in background showing how close to land they swim.
Looking back through some summer images and found these orcas. I am so grateful that I see these creatures as often as i have. Expand the first one to see the panorama. i love seeing a pod line up and swim in synchrony #cetaceans #orcas #marinelife #oceanscience #alaska #kachemakbay 🦑
Stellar sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) checking us out on a Bluesky day. This is near a rookery where 200-300 animals haul out. These are mostly females 500-600 lbs but Males can weigh between 450–1,120 kg (990–2,470 lb) 🦑 #stellarsealion #marinemammals #alaska #kachemakbay #ecotours
