18-foot great white shark the biggest among 15 at Monterey Bay beach (pics)
A scientist in a helicopter sighted and photographed a great white shark at Monterey Bay estimated at 18 feet long and perhaps 5,000 pounds. It was the biggest of 15 great white sharks that marine...
View ArticleGreat white shark swims under kayak, Santa Cruz paddler gets photos (9 pics)
A great white shark near Santa Cruz swam under a kayak on Tuesday – and the paddler, a marine biologist out to see the sharks, snapped a series of photos unlike anything ever seen on the central coast....
View ArticleChronicle’s Tom Stienstra wins top outdoor writing award in nation for record...
Chronicle outdoors writer Tom Stienstra was awarded the “President’s Award — Best of the Best, newspaper division,” for a record fourth time, announced Tom Sadler, executive director of the Outdoor...
View ArticleKayaker sights orca in Pillar Point Harbor
A kayaker at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay got the shock of his life last week when an orca, also known as a killer whale, appeared 30 feet away from the boater. The orca surfaced long enough...
View ArticleMonterey whales’ electrifying close-up show at Moss Landing (13 photos)
This might be the real “Greatest Show on Earth.” A pod of a 15 humpback whales, many roughly 50 feet long and 40 tons, have been roaming little over a mile offshore Moss Landing this past week on...
View ArticleStienstra video: Kayaking to see whales
Marine biologist and photographer Giancarlo Thomae and I paddled a kayak out of Moss Landing — where humpback whales swam right up to us. This short video captures several of the encounters. If you...
View ArticleLake Tahoe Basin braces for holiday garbage, dumpster-diving bears
Nevada officials killed two problem bears last week at Lake Tahoe and are bracing for a mountain of trash from tourists and more bear problems over the coming weekend, the last three-day holiday...
View ArticleMild winter gives deer herds a bounce
A mild winter a year ago followed by spring rains helped give deer herds their first population bounce in years. As deer seasons open this week across much of Northern California and the Sierra Nevada,...
View ArticleEagles, lions, coyotes, bears: Walk on the wild side might be closer than you...
The way things are going, next thing you know, a Bigfoot sighting will be reported in Golden Gate Park. Over the weekend, my sister, Susan, sighted a red-tailed hawk dive-bombing a bald eagle. This was...
View ArticleStienstra video: Rain arrives in time for ducks, geese, otters at wildlife...
This video stars 300,000 geese, river otters and an inside glimpse of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge driving tour — details in the Sunday Chronicle, outdoors on December 13, 2015,...
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