"Oh Buoy" | Bull Kelp Fine Art Print Size:5x7 paper with 8x10 matte San Carlos Beach

San Carlos Beach

A secretive bulb of bull kelp eclipses the afternoon sun in Monterey Bay

Passing through a brown sea nettle Chrysaora fuscescens jellyfish bloom at the Carmel Pinnacles

A rare Phialopsis diegensis hydromedusa jellyfish off Monastery Beach

A school of blue rockfish Sebastes mystinus meanders through a fresh grove of bull kelp repopulating a former urchin barren in Pacific Grove

"Oh Buoy" | Bull Kelp Fine Art Print Size:5x7 paper with 8x10 matte San Carlos BeachA young bull kelp reaches for the sea surface in a successional forest growing in behind an urchin front in Monterey Bay. Kelp forests in California have two primary canopy forming species: Giant kelp, genus Macrocystis and bull kelp, genus Nereocystis. There are also a half dozen sub canopy forming kelps with fleshier or woody stipes that create extra habitat and resources for many organisms beneath the tall towers of bull and giant kelp, and then