People come from around the world to try to see a northern right whale dolphin in the bay’s deep underwater canyons, said Colleen Talty, a marine biologist with Monterey Bay Whale Watch.

A surfer slides down a wave face at Steamer Lane as the mountains across the Monterey Bay rise in the background.

A pod of endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales were spotted off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. The whales rely on Chinook salmon as their primary food source, but salmon populations ...