At Lover’s Cove I saw a sea turtle, a couple of kelp fish, and a ton of lobsters. There are still plenty of fish in lovers Cove even though there aren’t too many at casino point due to the kelp being dead from the El Niño. There usually isn’t kelp at lovers cove, so the fish weren’t very affected.
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Community posts · Catalina Island
2 posts in the last 60 daysSaturday, September 26th
Catalina IslandWildlife sighting
Observed Sep 26 · Posted Sep 27 at 11:28 AM
Wednesday, September 16th
Casino Point Dive ParkSomething else
Observed Sep 16 · Posted Sep 18 at 1:12 PM
Kelp Forest Die Off: The sustained high ocean temperatures in august and september have been too high for kelp. A whole lot of the kelp on catalina island has died off.
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