Big Creek Fieldtrips

Optional Fieldtrip to Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve,
University of California, Monterey Co., California

Spring, 2002 (March 8-10)

Bridge over Big Creek	Cliffside group	Big Creek Canyon
Down Cardiac Trail	Almost to the beach	Coffee ferns &Dudleya farinosa
Big Creek Mouth	Wading the creek	Around the corner
Through the slot	Down to the Big Pool	Big Creek intertidal (Site 1)
Contemplating	All these limpets look alike!	Laminaria and other kelps
Low zone algae	Mr. Chimp rock	Black oystercatcher pair
Oystercatchers	Pisaster ochraceus	California mussels
Pollicipes among Mytilus	Pollicipes & Mytilus again	Lottia digitalis (barnacle morph)
Lottia digitalis aggregation	Lottia digitalis (rock morph)	Lottia gigantea
Tectura persona	Discurria insessa on feather boa kelp	Another Pisaster ochraceus
Katharina tunicata and red algae	The lined chiton	Mopalia hindsii
Exposed mussel zone	Anthopleura xanthogrammica	M. hindsii beside anemone
Exposed mussel zone closer	Laminaria setchellii	Nucella ostrina (top view)
Nesting peregrine falcon	Site One observations	N. ostrina (aperture)
Successful field trip!	Hike up Big Creek	Shortcut?
Banana slug	Douglas iris	False Solomon's seal
False Solomon seal again	Oak ravines and meadows	Lupines
Hill climbers	Rock podium	View from Dolan Ridge
Back downhill	Whale Point	View toward Oystercatcher Pt.
Big Creek talking	Posing in the mule	Trees and sunset