The Big Creek Blog

Feynner says this may be the most adult steelhead trout he has seen in the creek in all his 24 years of living at Big Creek Reserve.
We started seeing large adults around mid March with lots of evidence of redd-digging activity in the gravel areas. The week of March 26th we saw 10 steelhead on […]

You have to be pretty tough to be born on the Big Sur coast.
The wind was howling and the swell sent large breakers pouring over the washrocks into the cove this afternoon. With the ocean being this rough, it is common for the harbor seals to come from their more exposed beaches to the north […]

Our annual Open House day will be on Saturday, May 12 this year. This is an opportunity for the public to visit Big Creek Reserve, through which access is normally restricted to balance wilderness preservation with focused research and educational purposes. We will be offering information about […]

Tonight a ceonothus moth showed up at the door to the Whale Point Research Cabin. This is the earliest sighting of this species so far at Big Creek. The two past records were February 20, 2008 and February 22nd in a previous year (I will have to check with Jerry Powell on the year).
This winter […]

Here is a video I put together a while back showing what Big Creek looks like under the surface of its waters. It is in standard definition but until I get a high def version going, this will have to do. I snorkeled down the creek with a video camera and then added footage of […]