Background seep tar at Gaviota
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2016-06-06

Gaviota State Beach receives a good deal of natural oil seep tarring over the regular course of any given year.  Here you can see some of the naturally-occurring deposition at this public beach south of Point Conception, CA.  

Gaviota was largely spared significant oil spill tarring in the wake of the May 2015 Refugio Oil Spill.