The area is a marine estuary, a place where saltwater and freshwater meet. Many of the kelp leaves in the Morro Bay harbor have white patches, which are actually animals called crust bryozoans.

A gray whale surfaces in the Morro Bay Harbor near Morro Rock on Thursday, March 14, 2024, as paddle boarders and kayakers look on. The whale has been been spotted in the harbor for the last few days.

A gray whale surfaces in the Morro Bay Harbor near Morro Rock on Thursday, March 14, 2024, as paddle boarders and kayakers look on. The whale has been been spotted in the harbor for the last few days.

Morro Bay is one of California's last working fishing harbors even though the harbor entrance, one of the roughest on the West Coast, is closed for up to 40 days a year because of heavy seas.

Starting March 10, NOAA Fisheries — along with Morro Bay Harbor Patrol, the Coast Guard and the Marine Mammal Center — began tracking a young gray whale that entered the harbor and decided to ...

Eric Endersby is retiring as Morro Bay Harbor Department director. One of his big projects was recovering a sunken boat in the bay on Nov. 11, 2021, David Middlecamp [email protected] ...

Morro Bay can only afford to spend about $150,000 to $250,000 a year on the harbor, when the infrastructure really needs about $800,000 to $1 million a year in maintenance, Collins said.

MORRO BAY, Calif. - The Morro Bay Harbor Department (MBHD) received a donation of $100,000 on Thursday to assist with retrofitting a recently purchased harbor patrol boat.

The tax would collect about $680,000 a year, helping to close that gap, Collins said. A rain storm brings high surf and big waves at the Morro Bay Harbor breakwater on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019.

A man who was thrown from his boat and then spent the night clinging to a buoy for almost seven hours offshore from Morro Rock was spotted by a fisherman and rescued early Saturday morning.

For Morro Bay residents this means an extra $120 tacked on property taxes each year or $10 a month. This would impact roughly 5,400 parcels.

As of Monday, they have raised $27,000 of their $40,000 goal since launching the fundraiser in October. Friends of the Morro Bay Harbor Department is looking to purchase the UTV by March.