Log from the Bay of Monterey

My Review of Zamberlan Vioz GT Hiking Boots - Men's

2010-10-08T07:19:00.001-07:00

Originally submitted at REIWith legendary Italian quality and comfort, the Zamberlan Vioz GT boots offer waterproof protection and burly construction to handle everything from easy day hikes to backcountry adventures.Zamberlan Vioz GT Hiking Boots - Men'sOutstanding Boots!By ManAlive from Monterey on 10/8/2010 5out of 5Sizing: Feels true to sizeWidth: True to sizePros: Good Arch Support, Water

Monterey Bay Dolphin Patrol

2007-09-21T17:15:00.001-07:00

Coastal Bottlenose DolphinsOriginally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk Whenever I get the chance, which is usually twice a week, I take the five minute drive from my office to Marina State Beach to eat my lunch. It's the hangliding beach for the Monterey Bay so it's usually not a great place to picnic with the family. There is always blowing sand. But there is also always something going on in the

Turtles and Tarantulas

2007-09-10T22:35:00.000-07:00

This past Saturday, September 8th, 2007, I had the good fortune to be driving on Arroyo Seco Road at about 8am... when sunlight is still enriched in morning spectra. Even though I was a bit late for my destination, I had to stop and shoo a Tarantula (Aphonopelma spp.) off the road. It's Fall and they start that bad "out on the road" action, just like the mule deer. Ever since I heard about the

Ariolimax

2007-02-04T23:19:00.000-08:00

IMG_2521Originally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. Distribution of MimicryHere's a question that has probably been answered in some dusty Master's thesis sitting at a university library...Do Bay Laurel and yellow forms of Ariolimax overlap? Or, better yet, are there yellow forms of Ariolimax outside the range of the Bay Laurel?Flickr Banana Slug photoset http://www.flickr.com/photos/kibak/sets/

Old Bobcat at Wilder State Park

2006-05-06T09:16:00.000-07:00

bobcat31Originally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. This old bobcat that hangs out near the bridge by the corral at Wilder State Park is my favorite. It's also the only one of my bobcat friends that is photographically cooperative. Wilder is a great California State Park on the coast at the northern end of the Monterey Bay and an example of a new trend in park management in the western US (The BLM

2006-05-03T19:51:00.000-07:00

Many animals remain in place most of the year and then suddenly get up and move around in mini-migrations. Today it was the harvestmen... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvestman. The bike trail up through the Great Meadow at UCSC is where I notice the "migrations," mostly because I am moving so slowly that I actually see things. Along some segments of the trail there was one of these Opiliones

Monterey Bay, California

2006-05-02T00:06:00.000-07:00

These are links I use concerning Monterey Bayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz%2C_CAhttp://www.mbnms-simon.org/other/gen/imaps.phphttp://www.californiacoastline.org/http://library.ucsc.edu/maps/http://ceres.ca.gov/http://home.csumb.edu/k/kibakhenrik/world/links.html<-- Monterey Bay Location by Satellite

Fort Ord Ticks

2006-05-01T23:05:00.000-07:00

FtOrdTicksOriginally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. I've been thinking of photographing lurking (a.k.a. "questing") ticks for a while now, and today I finally got around to it. As far as I can tell, they love dead Lotus. I think these four are all Pacific Coast Ticks (Dermacentor occidentalis), three females and a male (without the pale shield). While the Western Black Legged Tick (Ixodes pacificus)

Dead Young Gray Whale

2006-04-29T23:29:00.000-07:00

RIMG0004Originally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. This young Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus) washed ashore March 15, 2006, at the Salinas River State Beach near the Monterey Dunes Colony.Although my first thought was that it had been raked by a propeller, the whale was also disemboweled... which pointed to Orcas. As you can see from the photos, it would have had to be a very slow moving propeller..

The web as personal archival tool... Part II

2006-04-27T20:20:00.000-07:00

The concept of taking notes from anywhere and accessing them again from anywhere was an early internet concept. Telnet, unix, and vi or emacs has allowed me to do that since 1984. But adding photos and using same tool to upload and view came about ten years later.I wrote my first web log in January 1996... only sporadic blogging since then. Why? Here are my thoughts. The three type of web logs I

Laboratory of David Epel in 1995

2006-04-25T22:09:00.000-07:00

EL-3Originally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. The Epel Lab at Hopkins Marine Station in the Spring of 1995From left David Epel, Barbara Toomey, Henrik Kibak, Beth Shomer, Melissa Kaufman, Yuzuru Ikeda, Barney Rees, and Chris Patton.I loved working in this lab. Dave is a biologist's biologist. The range of projects was so exciting. I had come from the Taiz Lab at UC Santa Cruz, where I was practically

Bumble Bees and Lupines

2006-04-23T22:52:00.000-07:00

bumblebee_lupineOriginally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. I am trying to put together a unit on pollination... and one "kernel object" will be insect transport.Every April and May, Fort Ord is carpeted with these beautiful little sky lupines (Lupinus nanus)(1)(2)(3) and bicolor lupines (Lupinus bicolor). But by mid June there is often not even a trace of them... all withered in typical drought-avoider

Ft. Ord Flowers & Animals April 16, 2005 - a photoset on Flickr

2006-04-08T23:26:00.000-07:00

IMG_2131Originally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. Fort Ord used to be a military base until about 1994. Most of the developed acreage was then turned over to a variety of public agencies and municipalities, including California State University Monterey Bay. As the huge undeveloped portion, where generations of rapid response light infantry had trained, was cleared of unexploded ordnance, it was

The web as a personal archival tool... Part I

2006-04-06T09:14:00.000-07:00

screen shot of 1997 Epel Lab websiteOriginally uploaded by Henrik Kibæk. I created my first website in March of 1995, unfortunately webarchive.org only began indexing pages in 1996, and I had left Stanford by then. They do have the old Epel Lab website I started from about 1998. By then they had updated the photo and moved me to the alumni list... However, the web page is essentially as I

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Looking down on our campsite.

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It's one of the finest campsite mornings I have ever experienced, but we are almost out of water.

2005-05-08T22:22:00.000-07:00

On the trail back up you can get a view down across the river at our campsite. The bear den is behind the rocks at the top of the photo.

2005-05-08T22:20:00.000-07:00

Freakin' stone cold monster packer!

2005-05-08T22:18:00.001-07:00

Soft office feet.

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Trout pool.

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30 degrees air temp, 15 degrees water temp.

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I can remember Kris fishing in just this location in 2002... too bad only a Kodak funsaver then.

2005-05-08T22:09:00.000-07:00

Looking downstream just below the trout channel.

2005-05-08T22:08:00.000-07:00

The channel was still very deep, but the force of the water and the number of fish was lower than in 2002.

2005-05-08T22:07:00.000-07:00

Not a timber rattler :-) just a big Kaj.

2005-05-08T22:06:00.000-07:00

View up towards the trout channel...

2005-05-08T22:04:00.000-07:00

Not a timber rattler :-) Just a big garter snake.

2005-05-08T22:03:00.000-07:00

When it's "live" I can stare at this for hours...

2005-05-08T22:02:00.000-07:00

Thar lives the Bar

2005-05-08T21:59:00.000-07:00

tells a story...

2005-05-08T21:58:00.000-07:00

This is the view from my "cafe."

2005-05-08T21:57:00.000-07:00

Water level low, warm enough for swimming, cool enough for trout...

2005-05-08T21:55:00.001-07:00

... og der.

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Her er der fisk...

2005-05-08T21:54:00.000-07:00

Kaj not bothered by nocturnal ants...

2005-05-08T21:52:00.000-07:00

Timber Rattler at 7,100' near McCreary Meadow