Credits

Photos

• Kelp forest, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: Chad King/NOAA. Public domain (NOAA staff photo). Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Anemone in the kelp, Monterey Bay. Photo: Chad King/NOAA. Public domain (NOAA staff photo). Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Harbor seal, Monterey Bay. Photo: Chad King/NOAA. Public domain (NOAA staff photo). Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Blue rockfish schooling in the kelp, Cannery Point, Point Lobos. Photo: Daniel Williford. CC BY 4.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Anemone, Monterey Bay. Photo: Chad King/NOAA. Public domain (NOAA staff photo). Source on Wikimedia Commons
• McAbee Beach, Monterey. Photo: Fastily. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Lovers Point Park beach, Pacific Grove. Photo: Missvain (Sarah Stierch). CC BY 4.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Monastery Beach (Carmel River State Beach), Carmel. Photo: Ariel E Barry. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Whalers Cove, Point Lobos. Photo: Diliff. CC BY-SA 3.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Bluefish Cove, Point Lobos. Photo: Eugene Zelenko. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Carmel River State Beach. Photo: Gregory Ford Henderson. CC BY-SA 4.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons

Photos are resized and cropped for this site. Adapted CC BY-SA photos are shared under the same license.

Aerial close-ups

The "Getting in" aerial images are USGS/USDA NAIP orthoimagery from The National Map (public domain), with entry and parking pins added here.

Data

Data from NOAA: the National Data Buoy Center, the National Weather Service (including the Nearshore Wave Prediction System) and CO-OPS tides. NOAA does not endorse this site. Buoys 46236, 46239 and 46240 are CDIP buoys: data courtesy of CDIP, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Type and icons

Manrope and Inter, under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site. Icons from Lucide (ISC license).