Sandy Beaches in the Gulf of the Farallones National

Marine Sanctuary

2. Map of the Sanctuary

3. Point Reyes Coast

4. Birds

5. Waves

6. Waves at Shore

7. Wave with Rope

8. More Waves at Shore

9. Breaking Waves

10. Wave Tunnel

11. Surf at Point Reyes

12. Eroding Cliff

13. Stinson Beach

14. Cobble Beach

15.Beach with People

16. Tar Ball

17. Summer Beach

18. Winter Beach

19. Eart

h and Moon

Earth

Moon

water level is blue

low tide

high tide

low tide

high tide

As the Moon moves around Earth, the bulges of water follow.

20. Tide Chart

21. Interstitial Animals

Interstitial Animalstotal length between 0.1 and 1.5 mm

Interstitial space is the space between

the sand grains

22. yWorm holes

23. Sand Crab

24. Female Crab with Eggs

25. Swash Zone

26. Sand Crab Diagram

27. Dinoflagellate

28. Beach Hopper

29. Beach Wrack

30. More Beach Wrack

31. Stinson Beach

32. Moon Snail

33. Sand Dollar

34. Surf Perch

35. Willet

36. Sanderlings

37. Snowy Plover

38. Surf Scoter

39. Gulls

40. Brown Pelicans

41. Elephant Seal

42. Humans on Beach

43. Horseback Rider

44. Kayaker

45. Clammer

46. Clammers with Clams

47. Pollution

48. People Cleaning Beach

49. T/V Puerto Rican

50. Oil near Farallones

51. Oil Very Close to Islands

52. Map of Oil Spill

San Francisco

Farallon Islands

Bodega Bay

Site of sunken stern

53. Oiled Grebes

54. Doran Beach

55. Western Sandpiper

56. Sunset