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Brian Buck · @brianbuck
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Beautiful day on Lopez Island for a bike tour.

#tourdelopez #SanJuanIslands #BikeTooter #cycling

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Austin Ruf · @austinruf
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Scenes yesterday from Lopez Island, WA

#LopezIsland #SanJuanIslands #washingtonstate

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Kristen M · @klpm
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I shouldn’t have looked at the news bc then I wouldn’t know that Ken Balcomb has died. What an amazing life of science and conservation.

#marinemammals #orcas #conservation #SanJuanIslands #whales

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Kristen M · @klpm
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I shouldn’t have looked at the news bc then I wouldn’t know that Ken Balcomb has died. What an amazing life of science and conservation.

#marinemammals #orcas #conservation #SanJuanIslands #whales

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Dave Haas · @davehaas
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John Orcutt · @GonzagaMEATLab
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It's back to the of 's this , this time to visit an odd group. Coralline red are distant relatives of plants, but they're named because they look like some types of . In fact, this similarity is more than skin-deep. Just as coral animals often encase themselves in calcium shells, these algae line their cell walls with the same , making them much more rigid than other .

#rockyintertidal #Washington #SanJuanIslands #MarineLifeMonday #seaweed #algae #coral #carbonate #mineral #seaweeds

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Gonzaga MEAT Lab · @GonzagaMEATLab
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On other sites, uses to share the wonders of their , but it's a great opportunity to more broadly celebrate life past and present and I'm hoping it catches on here! With that in mind, please appreciate this leather star (Dermasterias imbricata), an important of other along the West Coast. This one was spotted at a very low tide in Washington's .

#noaa #MarineLifeMonday #undersea #NationalMarineSanctuaries #Oceanic #predator #intertidal #invertebrates #SanJuanIslands

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