Moments: Tahoe January 2010

Whales at Seymour Marine Discovery Center

Seymour Marine Discovery Center is a place that is easy to miss, being located along the barren Santa Cruz cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. It's one of my favorite locations in Monterey Bay because the exhibits in their visitor's center have a strong emphases in sharing the real, unique research done by UC Santa Cruz's Institute of Marine Sciences researchers and other affiliate research groups. And they have real skeletal structures of a blue whale and humpback whale on their grounds. The blue whale one is 87-foot long and supposedly the largest real skeletons of any kind displayed anywhere in the world. The photo taken inside the rib cage belonged to a smaller gray whale.

Small Kine Barrel