I had no idea cala lilies grew by the ocean!!! 😍

Can you spot the seals 🦭 among the rocks on the shore or swimming? 😍

Happy Sunday! ☕️ 📰

Classic coastal couple w their dog watching the sun set. #Californialife

Saw the SpaceX dragon capsule reentry from my house in Pacific Grove!!! Welcome back to Earth, Crew-11! 🚀

Good morning 🌞

As Julie Packard prepares to retire, a look at her legacy that shaped the Monterey Bay Aquarium and its global impact. www.montereycountynow.com/news/cover/a...

Buenos días 🌈

Op Ed by Monterey Bay Aquarium CEO Julie Packard & Sec Leon Panetta: Trump’s plan to open California’s coastline to oil drilling threatens more than ocean life www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

One of those days when you really need the print edition…. #newsjunkie

“The good news about the ocean is that it can recover if we just give it a chance. We just need to keep moving forward, and here in the U.S., we need to just raise our voices, because we’re backtracking on (almost) every important environmental law…” www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news...

Nice way to start the year! 👑🐝

Feliz 2026!!!

Last sunset of 2025. #HappyNewYear

Keep running into these guys on Miami sidewalks! #weliveinthefuture

#Mafalda siempre vigente

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“It is difficult to overstate the mythical importance oil holds in Venezuela. Like beauty pageant winners and baseball, oil is a source of national pride and a prism through which Venezuelans often compare their society to others.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

“These were not just popular movies and they weren't just good movies; these were an awful lot of people's favorite movies.” @lindaholmes.bsky.social Rob Reiner made movies for people who love them www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

So cool to see the never-before-exhibited big red jelly (Tiburonia granrojo) on display in Into the Deep/En lo Profundo @montereybayaquarium.org It's a new species that was described for science in 2003 by MBARI.

Sunday

La imagen de la virgen de Guadalupe hoy en la catedral de Monterey. En lo alto de la fachada de la Catedral, hay un bajorrelieve de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Esta es la imagen esculpida más antigua de California, data de finales del siglo XVIII.

So many people tidepooling during #KingTide

Lit a fireplace for the first time tonight!!! #adulting

Sunny Saturday tasting California reds! 🍷 🍇

File this under: I love hearing smart people deconstruct silly pop culture & I am from Venezuela where watching the Miss Universe pageant is a national obligation! Bravo Asma Khalid for this brilliant episode!!!l podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Trump administration's plan to expand offshore drilling over more than 1.2 billion acres of ocean worries coastal residents, tourism industry.

Excellent USATODAY story recaps concerns and reactions to the administration's plan to expand offshore drilling over more than 1.2 billion acres of ocean--> www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

LOVE that this is my local public radio station’s pod & that I can hear it on NPR One!!!! (Please, support your local NPR member station.) And so proud of the work Monterey Bay Aquarium is doing & that we have such a terrific spokesperson in Aimee David one.npr.org/i/fis-126916...

If you’re at a work meeting with donuts, you must partake. But you can’t take a whole donut so at the end of the meeting the leftovers box is made of mismatched halves & quarters. It’s the rules. I didn’t make them. 🍩

Incredible #sunset tonight

Spectacular #sunset with bagpiper playing the Outlander theme

When I say come visit, this place is unreal. I mean it.

I ❤️ voting in person! #electionday

Good night from our tiny faraway corner of the world

OTTER-LY ROMANTIC says @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Gotta say I'm loving my new job: "let's be puffin-forward" -- actual quote from a planning meeting today :)

Best way to spend my morning: with a local TV crew getting some sea otter footage as our awesome fundraising campaign launches today!

“The attention it’s bringing to sea otters and the aquarium’s work, restoring and recovering the southern sea otter as a species.” www.kqed.org/news/1205973...

RIP Diane Keaton. She starred in some of my favorite movies 💔

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Aren’t #otters the cutest?

Looks like the PG painters club is out this beautiful afternoon

The Grammy-winning singer gave the Monterey Bay Aquarium a subtle shoutout during her latest film event, sporting merchandise in support of the institution known for its extensive sea otter research and marine conservation programs. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Taylor Swift’s Monterey Bay Aquarium Tee Sends a Sweet Nod to Travis Kelce www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/la...