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
• Opalescent nudibranch on red seaweed, Monterey Harbor. Photo: Steve Lonhart/NOAA MBNMS. Public domain (NOAA staff photo). Source on Wikimedia Commons
• San Carlos Beach, Monterey. Photo: Amadscientist. CC BY-SA 3.0. 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
• Fan Shell Beach, 17-Mile Drive, Pebble Beach. Photo: Clotee Pridgen Allochuku (via Panoramio). CC BY-SA 3.0. Source on Wikimedia Commons
• Carmel Point and the Mrs. Clinton Walker House from Carmel Beach. Photo: Mutante. CC BY-SA 3.0. 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.

Site wave heights come from the CDIP Monitoring and Prediction (MOP) nearshore wave model, version 1.1, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, served at thredds.cdip.ucsd.edu. CDIP is primarily supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). The data may be redistributed and used without restriction.

Type and icons

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