I Have A Kelp Tattoo.

Thetis

 

Swirl and Blur

For most of these pictures I was trying to catch the cool swirling whirlpool effect I witnessed when I first approached that rock with the sea palm. I lack patience, and will try again another time, but the sequence may suggest helpfully some sense of the swirling currents at play here just south of the double arch at Stillwell Point.

 

The Salt Embrace III

The Watcher

Sculpture mix; glazed with nutmeg.

Yearning for Salt

Light winds --
kayaking off Van Damme State Beach
in Mendocino County.

--a shot from years ago: 2017? 2016?

Rising and Falling: Purple Urchin, Abalone

Increasing, marauding hoards of purple urchins cause kelp barrens, which leads to undernourished abalone, depleted populations of abalone and all the other creatures that belong in the kelp-ecosystems.

Very sad.

Sub-Tidal Still-Life

My mood improves, goes up, the more time I spend down below . . . .

Crab Dance

Shell Soup

Below the Waterline

Let's go swimming!

Mendocino swimming.
5/4 surfing wetsuit with an integral hood.