I live in Chicago, but I still feel close ties to the Northern California coast where I grew up and first fell in love with the ocean and water in general. The cause of clean drinking water is especially meaningful to me, but I love the stuff in all its forms. This blog pays tribute to that spunky little molecule, water.
Horizon
Incredible footage of an octopus changing shape, color and texture to match its surroundings
Fisheye Beach
Tall ships and whales
A beluga whale makes and plays with bubble rings.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2010
Beach umbrellas
Jellyfish
High-res
Mother whale and calf
Jim Denevan’s sand art
Andres Amador’s sand art
Shipwrecks
Apollo 13 splashdown. The troubled space flight concludes. ABC News, 1970.
Marvelous old maps with some pretty frightening sea monsters.
The “strip mining” of shark fins is rapidly depleting the ocean’s vulnerable shark populations.
