Giant Kelp Silk Cotton Wrap
Make like a sea otter on and wrap yourself up in giant kelp! This lovely large silk cotton wrap will keep you warm on foggy days on the California coast. Patterned from the new growth tips of giant kelp that wash ashore in autumn's large swells here on the Central Coast, this bold pattern was designed to make you feel like you are underwater. Kelp is what makes the nearshore waters of the Monterey Bay into a cold water paradise. This prolific algae, which can grow up to 18” a day in the summer sun, and up to 100 feet tall, forms a dense underwater forest that provides nurturing habitat to thousands of other species – mollusks, urchins, anemone, abalone, fish, plankton, jellies, otters, harbor seals, sea lions, leopard sharks, and more. Kelp is truly evolved, with adaptations that allow it to thrive and move with unspeakable grace in the constant surge. Its floats keep each blade upturned toward the sun, whose corrugated texture maximizes surface area for direct absorption of seawater nutrients. Fifty years ago, the kelp forests were in a state of decline in the Monterey Bay and along the Big Sur Coast, until the California Sea Otter, once thought to be extinct, made an amazing comeback. Sea otter predation keeps populations of purple sea urchins in check, which in turn prevents the kelp forest from being totally consumed by these and other species. The size and distribution of Giant Kelp forests has fluctuated greatly over the last few decades. Kelp canopies have generally declined locally since data collection began in 1967. Stressors include warming water, intense storms, increased turbidity and siltation from development, and trophic imbalances in the food chain rendered through fishing activities. This 27”x79” scarf is printed on a silk-cotton blend with a delicate flat hem.
Make like a sea otter on and wrap yourself up in giant kelp! This lovely large silk cotton wrap will keep you warm on foggy days on the California coast. Patterned from the new growth tips of giant kelp that wash ashore in autumn's large swells here on the Central Coast, this bold pattern was designed to make you feel like you are underwater. Kelp is what makes the nearshore waters of the Monterey Bay into a cold water paradise. This prolific algae, which can grow up to 18” a day in the summer sun, and up to 100 feet tall, forms a dense underwater forest that provides nurturing habitat to thousands of other species – mollusks, urchins, anemone, abalone, fish, plankton, jellies, otters, harbor seals, sea lions, leopard sharks, and more. Kelp is truly evolved, with adaptations that allow it to thrive and move with unspeakable grace in the constant surge. Its floats keep each blade upturned toward the sun, whose corrugated texture maximizes surface area for direct absorption of seawater nutrients. Fifty years ago, the kelp forests were in a state of decline in the Monterey Bay and along the Big Sur Coast, until the California Sea Otter, once thought to be extinct, made an amazing comeback. Sea otter predation keeps populations of purple sea urchins in check, which in turn prevents the kelp forest from being totally consumed by these and other species. The size and distribution of Giant Kelp forests has fluctuated greatly over the last few decades. Kelp canopies have generally declined locally since data collection began in 1967. Stressors include warming water, intense storms, increased turbidity and siltation from development, and trophic imbalances in the food chain rendered through fishing activities. This 27”x79” scarf is printed on a silk-cotton blend with a delicate flat hem.
Make like a sea otter on and wrap yourself up in giant kelp! This lovely large silk cotton wrap will keep you warm on foggy days on the California coast. Patterned from the new growth tips of giant kelp that wash ashore in autumn's large swells here on the Central Coast, this bold pattern was designed to make you feel like you are underwater. Kelp is what makes the nearshore waters of the Monterey Bay into a cold water paradise. This prolific algae, which can grow up to 18” a day in the summer sun, and up to 100 feet tall, forms a dense underwater forest that provides nurturing habitat to thousands of other species – mollusks, urchins, anemone, abalone, fish, plankton, jellies, otters, harbor seals, sea lions, leopard sharks, and more. Kelp is truly evolved, with adaptations that allow it to thrive and move with unspeakable grace in the constant surge. Its floats keep each blade upturned toward the sun, whose corrugated texture maximizes surface area for direct absorption of seawater nutrients. Fifty years ago, the kelp forests were in a state of decline in the Monterey Bay and along the Big Sur Coast, until the California Sea Otter, once thought to be extinct, made an amazing comeback. Sea otter predation keeps populations of purple sea urchins in check, which in turn prevents the kelp forest from being totally consumed by these and other species. The size and distribution of Giant Kelp forests has fluctuated greatly over the last few decades. Kelp canopies have generally declined locally since data collection began in 1967. Stressors include warming water, intense storms, increased turbidity and siltation from development, and trophic imbalances in the food chain rendered through fishing activities. This 27”x79” scarf is printed on a silk-cotton blend with a delicate flat hem.