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Wild West - America's Great FrontierRestless ShoresIn pictures...

Discover the powerful earth forces that shape the coastline of the wild west.

  • Swollen-nosed side-blotched lizards (Uta tumidarostra) are endemic to just one island in the Sea of Cortez, Isla Coloradito
  • A forest of boojums (Fouquieria columnaris) growing alongside other desert specialists, Baja Peninsula, Mexico
  • Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) at Año Nuevo State Park, California
  • A Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
  • A California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), Los Islotes, Sea of Cortez.
  • A huge shoal of big-eyed scads (Selar crumenophthalmus) in the shallows around Los Islotes, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
  • Two California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) play near a shoal of big-eyed scads (Selar crumenophthalmus)
  • Translucent jellyfish surround a bull kelp frond, Nereocystis luetkeana, and a woolly sculpin, Clinocottus analis.
  • Blue whale, mother and calf (Balaenoptera musculus)
  • Mobula ray leaps from the waters of the Gulf of California, Baja, Mexico

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