August 14th, 2008
This was a pretty mind blowing experience! We were out boating in the Santa Barbara Channel and these humpback whales surfaced right next to us. Thanks to our friend, Todd Crawford, who shot this video! Let us know what you would do??!!
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June 12th, 2008
The humpbacks have made it up from Baja to our backyard in the Santa Barbara Channel. We’ve had some amazing sightings. Check out this one that burst out of the water in front of us! Amazing!
breech!
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April 29th, 2008
It was hot this weekend in Santa Barbara, so we went out on our boat. We were lucky enough to run into 2 separate pairs of gray whale mamas and their babies. It was so exciting! We were changing our gas tank and looked up, and there they were, heading strait for us! Here are a couple shots:
This harbor seal was sun bathing in the kelp: 
There were also a ton of people out enjoying the beaches. Here are a couple shots of kayakers at Refugio State Beach. The water was crystal clear!
refugio
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March 19th, 2008
For your viewing pleasure 
radio
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February 13th, 2008
Hanging over the front our inflatable, the ocean quickly changed shades of blue. As I focused closer, dolphins raced to the surface spraying me with salty water spewing from their blowholes. Before I knew it, we were surrounded by a pod of 150+ dolphins out in the Santa Barbara Channel on Sunday. Whistling and clicking is the scientific verbiage used to describe dolphin’s communication. I never thought I would be so close that I could actually hear the dolphins talk in the wild. It was an amazing day! We’ll post more photos soon! -courtney
dolphins!
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January 23rd, 2008
We have a new adventure-mobile! It’s a caribe 14 ft. rigged hull inflatable boat that gives us access to water. We’ve taken it out off the shore of Santa Barbara and it’s been a blast. One of the places we can’t wait to visit is Lake Powell, Arizona. We even have racks that will hold our kayaks and we can pile in camping gear and be set for exploring. Here are some photos from the past week:
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December 18th, 2007
We went for a sunset walk on the beach the other night. Ahhhh… winter in Santa Barbara!
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