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This section is where you'll find our collection of articles and stories that describe (i.e. interpret) our local natural history and some of the creatures, activities, or features you might encounter on a visit to Doheny State Beach.

If you've already been to Doheny and have a nature question, we invite you to let us know. It might well become a topic for a future article.

   Do Night Herons Read Tide Books?

   Doheny Tide Pool and Aquariums

   Striped Skunk

   Brown Pelican

   Animal House

   The Great Spiny One

   The Abalone:"Marvelous Mollusk In Need Of Help"

   Abalone, the Other, Other White Meat

   The Guitarfish (Rhinobatus productus)

   "That's a Moray (Gymnothorax mordax)

   "Aw, come on, you're pulling my leg...or fin"

   The Fish Do What?

   Armed, but not Dangerous

   A Star Is Born

   "The Chestnut Cowrie" (Cypraea spadicea)

   Fins to the left, Fins to the right...

   Jaws...as in Plural! (White Sharks at San Onofre)

   Thar she blows

   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Doheny Style)

   A Whale of a Time

   A Whale of a Tail

   Blue Whales

   Ramblings from the Ranger

   More Ramblings from the Ranger

   Operation Gone Fission

   "Tourists" or Weather Forecasters?

   Halloween Haunt

   All Washed Up (San Juan Creek Golf Balls)

   Have House...Will Travel (Hermit Crabs)

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