THE BAY OF MORRO BAY
Today’s article is about the beautiful Morro Bay and the marine creatures, including sea lions, seals, and otters, that reside in the bay. We will also be discussing the programs that are preserving the bay.
Morro Bay is a salt-water bay approximately 6.4 kilometers, or 3.1719 miles long, and is connected to the rest of the Pacific Ocean by a narrow entrance, less than ¼ of a mile wide, near a 600-foot-tall rock called Morro Rock. A town, also called Morro Bay, is on the bay’s shore. The bay is 13.1 miles from San Luis Obispo, and201.7 miles from Los Angeles. Morro Bay is on the Central area of California’s coast, and is defined on the map by the California Bight. The bay can be as deep as 21.1 feet deep and as shallow as 2.7 feet deep.
The bay has clean air quality and almost no air pollution. The estuaries nearby the bay play a large part in the ecosystem of the bay. Unfortunately, they may be having a negative effect on the sea life there now. As mentioned in this website’s Cloudy Bubble Snail Article, fresh water from the local estuaries has started flowing out in much larger quantities than before. This is suffocating sea life thatcan’t filter fresh water, and also offsetting the salinity in the water which is harming more creatures. Due to sedimentation, the bay has lost more than a quarter of its volume over the last 100 years.
The eelgrass in Morro Bay is disappearing. The eelgrass helped the cloudy bubble snails.
Lack of eelgrass means that more small channels coming out of the bay will probably be created.
Due to the presence of a coldwater current off the California coast, Morro Bay is sometimes closed to swimmers. Parts of Morro Baymay also be closed to swimmers due to the fact that much sea life lives there, and they are closed in an effort to not disturb or destroy their environment. A Program That Is Conserving The Wild Life Of Morro Bay Is: The Morro Bay Estuary Program.
The Morro Bay Estuary Program
The Morro Bay Estuary Program is a vital program for restoration of the eel grass in Morro Bay. Tries to make awareness of the creatures living there. You can watch sea otters and they can watch you.
Many areas of Morro Bay have been degraded and vandalized, but the Morro Bay Estuary Program is doing its best to return it to its natural state of being. The Morro Bay Estuary Program organizing hundreds of volunteers also helps to keep track of the numbers of the aquatic species in the bay, and thus the bay’s health.
It has restored numerous areas of Morro Bay and has been incredibly helpful to the aquaculture of Morro Bay.
One of Morro Bay’s mysteries is that residents over the years have complained about their water tasting and smelling odd. This may because the Morro Bay Power Plant is polluting the water, but nobody knows for sure. The reason for the water smelling odd makes no sense.
Morro Bay’s air quality is surprisingly good as not much air pollution happens in the area.
Unfortunately, Morro Bay has many endangered animals due to their habitats being destroyed. One of the cuter endangered species of the Morro Bay area is the Morro Bay Kangaroo Rat.`
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Ideas for Further Research
If climate change of some type is inevitable (As it might be), then how is can we mitigate its negative effects on Morro Bay?
Conclusion
Although Morro Bay is a relatively sheltered area in a well-populated state, Morro Bay is a wonderful place to see animals such as wild sea lions and seals, and otters. Morro Bay is also changing, and there is much about the bay that we either do not currently know, or that has changed in response to changing conditions. We must continue to investigate the bay and monitor it, to manage it in the best way for the sake of the area’s human and other inhabitants.
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