Steelhead enter the coastal streams with the arrival of winter storms. A variety of fish species appear with the churning of primary productivity enduced by coastal upwelling. This, in turn, is induced by the spring wind-driven California Current. The calendar was a collaborative effort of by Jimmy L. Cabading, a resident artist that creates his images with a computer and Michael Harris, who did the research and arranged the schematic. In the kiosk there is a photo of a gray whale seen breaching last year in our cove.
Gray whales make the longest migration of all whales, or cetaceans, in the world.
They go from the Bering Sea in Alaska to the lagoons of Baja, Mexico every year. They start heading south in December and January and are generally in a hurry. On the southern leg of their journey, they don't often come in close to shore here but travel straight across the Bay out some 10-20 miles. On the return trip though, from March through May and even June, they will take their time and linger in Bays and over shallow sandy bottoms. It started getting curious about what was above water and began sticking his or her head above the surface a number of times.