Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live. Neil Young Stephen Stills Zappa Plays Zappa The Who Tom Petty Thomas Mapfumo Salif Keita Oumou Sangare Hamza El Din Habib Koite 110
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I guess this is my most obviously political Washed Up. Hopefully someone will be offended... www.northcoastjournal.com/life-outdoor...northcoastjournal.comLadybug Wind Deniers - North Coast Journal“It’s the wrong time to go, folks. It’s a warm spring day, but there’s a Devil Wind a-blowin’,” said a ladybug to the hundreds of others huddled together waiting for the right time to emerge from my s... 020
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 15/04/2025My new story in the NCJ. Why purple-striped sea nettles and billionaires don't mix. www.northcoastjournal.com/life-outdoor...northcoastjournal.comPurple Jellies of DoomHi there. I'm a stranger from the future here to beg you to stop reading these Washed Up stories. The asshole who writes them made... 041
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Here's installment 2 of my jellyfish trilogy in the North Coast Journal. Please enjoy responsibly... www.northcoastjournal.com/life-outdoor...northcoastjournal.comSea Nettle BabymakingA local grocery store was overstocked, so they had a big sale. When I arrived, the place was packed with people having sex and grabbing... 0121
Reposted by Mike KellyCri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The world is covered in teeny jewels! An ab fab Genus Arhyssus Scentless Plant Bug for #TrueBugTuesday #becurious #inverts 1321324
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Lots of fun (and science!) here. Get your science-based New Yorker comic fix! bsky.app/profile/hime...bsky.app 040
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 10/01/2025My new Washed Up story in the North Coast Journal. If this one makes you hungry, eat anything other than Sugar Frosted Moon Flakes. www.northcoastjournal.com/life-outdoor...northcoastjournal.comMoon Jellies for BreakfastWe at Washed-up Foods Inc. are preparing to launch our first breakfast cereal. It's called Sugar Frosted Moon Flakes. It's made from our local moon... 2124
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Here are clips of some of the bigger sets that came in during the big California surf on Dec 23. From Wedding Rock at Sue-meg State Park. #Humboldt youtu.be/gESK9Iq9QdMyoutu.beBig Surf December 23, 2024 Humboldt County, CaliforniaYouTube video by M. Sid Kelly (HumboldtMike) 0134
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Here are some clips of the breach at Stone Lagoon on Sunday. This was shortly after the breach began and shows the breach channel still forming. #Humboldt youtu.be/Ak-Clx8ZU7oyoutu.beStone Lagoon Breach 12 29 24YouTube video by M. Sid Kelly (HumboldtMike) 061
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I'm not certain, but I think this is a Pugettia decorator crab. I wouldn't expect it to be comfortable encircled by the tentacles of a giant green anemone, but that's how it seemed. In a #Humboldt tide pool - for #Crustmas. 615731
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 21/12/2024A larval herring and a recently transformed herring fry sampled in a tidal pond on #Humboldt Bay for #Fishmas. 🐟 0309
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 21/12/2024I believe this is a yellowtail rockfish in a #Humboldt tide pool for #Fishmas. 🐟🤿 171
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 21/12/2024A porcelain crab with an injured "thumb" exposed at low tide in #Humboldt for #Crustmas. 🦀 49410
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024For #Crustmas - a long isopod on the stipe of a kelp that was washed up on the beach and taken into the lab. I believe it is the kelp isopod Pentidotea. 69415
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024For #Fishmas - a jacksmelt riding his osprey sleigh to bring presents to all the good little children. #Humboldt 🐟 1224
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024A cluster of goose barnacles in a #Humboldt tide pool for #Crustmas. 🤿 37812
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024For #Fishmas a smoothhead sculpin, I believe, in a #Humboldt tide pool with a bonus Hermissenda nudibranch. 🐟🤿 1204
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 16/12/2024A combo #Fishmas and #Crustmas post... A small lingcod from #Humboldt Bay with dozens of copepods living on its body. The fish and its "friends" were released to continue their affair. 1245
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I believe this is the lined shore crab - Pachygrapsus - exposed at low tide in #Humboldt for #Crustmas. 🦀 56310
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I believe this is a grass rockfish - in a #Humboldt tide pool for #Fishmas. There are also 2 green marine leeches on the 4th dorsal spine. I couldn't find a leech emoji though... 🐟🤿 3352
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024A hermit crab of some kind in a #Humboldt tide pool for this 14th day of #Crustmas. (The shell is from a wentletrap snail.) 🦀🤿 38912
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 14/12/2024A rockhead poacher in a #Humboldt tide pool at night for this 14th day of #Fishmas. 🐟🤿🌙 4354
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024For #Crustmas, a so-called skeleton shrimp (a caprellid amphipod) on a kelp holdfast with smaller caprellid hanging on. They were on a washed-up kelp holdfast on a #Humboldt beach and taken into the lab. 🦐 1568
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024A gunnel peeking out from coralline algae in a #Humboldt tide pool for #Fishmas. 🐟🤿 1244
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024A purple shore crab exposed at low tide in #Humboldt for #Crustmas 🦀 711021
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024A small topsmelt in a #Humboldt tide pool at night for #Fishmas. 1122
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Two views of northern kelp crabs in #Humboldt tide pools for #Crustmas. 🦀🤿 14510
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I believe this is a fluffy sculpin (Oligocottus snyderi) in a #Humboldt tide pool for #Fishmas. 🐟🤿 2235
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024A Pacific rock crab in a #Humboldt tide pool for #Crustmas. 🦀🤿 0375
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Today's #Fishmas entry is a cabezon in a #Humboldt tidepool at night. 🐟🤿🌙 1314
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024For #Crustmas, the sea slater isopod Ligia in a #Humboldt sea cave.🦀 0406
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024For #Fishmas, a buffalo sculpin in a #Humboldt tide pool at night. 🐟🤿 0195
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Celebrating #Crustmas and #Fishmas with an uncomfortable-looking sculpin that has an isopod on its face and 3 leeches. I don't think the isopod is normally a parasite, but its not doing the sculpin any favors. In a #Humboldt tide pool. 🐟🦀🤿 2364
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024A so-called stout shrimp in a #Humboldt tide pool at night for #Crustmas. They are commonly green, but highly variable in color and pattern, and are very common. 🦐🤿 211912
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024A portrait of a monkeyface prickleback for #Fishmas. Poking its head out from under a rock in a #Humboldt tide pool to get a better look at the thing trying to get a look at it. 🐟🤿 1141
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Saw 3 southbound gray whales this afternoon from Wedding Rock at Sue-Meg State Park in #Humboldt. I wonder if the two travelling together - of obviously different sizes - may be a mother/calf pair from last season's brood...? The 3rd was about 15 minutes later and seemed intermediate in size. 2282
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Got distracted by the earthquake yesterday and missed my #Crustmas post. So here's a 2-fer. A decked out decorator crab and a hermit crab that looks like it could use a bigger shell. Both in a #Humboldt tide pool. 🦀🤿 0195
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Got distracted by the earthquake yesterday and missed my #Fishmas post. So here's a 2-fer. Juvenile kelp rockfish oriented up-side down under a boat on #Humboldt Bay, and juvenile black rockfish in a local tide pool.🐟 072
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Well, that was one of the bigger earthquakes I've felt. It built for a long time. No damage at my house as far as I can tell. Still under a tsunami warning... 3160
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024A molt of a granular claw crab found on a #Humboldt County beach for #Crustmas🦀 3295
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024A young-of-year coho salmon in Redwood National Park, #Humboldt County, CA for #Fishmas 🐟 0545
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Saw this so-called cloud-top flash at sunset in #Humboldt County, CA today. It's not the same as a green flash, but is similar. Tried the blurry super-cropped one to show the colors, but the flash may not have been visible to the naked eye. #AtmosphericOptics 🌈🌥️ 1183
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Saw some killer whales from Wedding Rock in Sue-Meg State Park in #Humboldt County, CA this PM. They were milling around the Turtle Rocks - maybe 2 miles from where I was standing. There were lots of sea lions around, but I didn't notice any obvious hunting. Then a lone southbound humpback went by. 0110
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Mole crabs for #Crustmas. Some years mole crabs are super abundant on #Humboldt County, CA beaches. They go up and down the beach as the tide changes and ride the was - though sometimes piles of them are briefly stranded until the next wave.🌊 4407
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 03/12/2024For #Fishmas, brook lampreys spawning in Redwood National Park in #Humboldt County, CA. 🤿🐟 2365
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 02/12/2024A rock greenling at night in the rocky intertidal of #Humboldt County for #Fishmas. 🤿🐟 0212
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Swarms of mysids AKA opossum shrimps in a #Humboldt County tide pool for #Crustmas. 🤿🦐 1282
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I'm happy to see #Fishmas on Bluesky! So here's a painted greenling in a #Humboldt tide pool to get me started. 🐟🤿 0203
Mike Kelly @mikesidkelly.bsky.social · 01/12/2024YAY! It's #crustmas time! Here's a juvenile crab that was in a washed-up kelp holdfast on a #Humboldt beach. I took the holdfast to the lab and eventually we had a red rock crab that lived another 4 or 5 years. I assume it was this crab, but I don't know. 212219