Bodega Bay News

Published: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:05 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:05 a.m. Dungeness crab season is the perfect excuse to make an afternoon escape to Bodega Bay's windswept dunes, beaches and chowder shacks.

Published: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:52 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:52 a.m. A series of power outages darkened a variety of Sonoma County areas Saturday and Sunday as the latest storm swept through the region.

A chilly, crisp wind whipped through the masts of the fishing boats in Bodega Bay Harbor.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:40 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 3:40 p.m. After a poor start off Bodega Bay, commercial fishermen are hauling in good catches of Dungeness crab off Eureka and Crescent City.

The couple, Nikolaos Afentakis, 83, and Eudora Afentakis, 78, of Pittsburg were found Thursday afternoon amid the wreckage of their 20-foot boat near Salmon Creek north of Bodega Bay, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department.

The Sonoma County coroner's office today released the identities of the elderly husband and wife who died Thursday after their boat capsized in the waters near Bodega Bay.

The Sonoma County coroner has identified an elderly couple whose bodies were recovered near Bodega Bay after they failed to return from a Thanksgiving Day crabbing trip.

A man's body was discovered in the waters off Bodega Bay this afternoon and authorities are searching for a possible second person in the waters, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.

What was up with the birds this year? 2009 will go down as the year that birds had it in for technology.

For the first time in 28 years your children will not be home for Thanksgiving. They're coming for Christmas, but they each have other plans at Thanksgiving.

Sunday's start of the commercial Dungeness crab season in ocean waters off the Bay Area was either better or worse than expected, depending on who was selling what.

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:54 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:54 p.m. Bodega Bay fishermen and seafood buyers have reached an agreement on price and, with the commercial crab fishing season starting on Sunday, the first North Coast crab could be in stores by Monday.

This year's Dungeness crab season, scheduled to open Sunday, will likely be worse than last year's but isn't expected to the lowest the Bay Area has seen, according to an industry representative.

Talk about fun: We woke early on a September Saturday and drove for breakfast to a restaurant on the shore of Bodega Bay.

Published: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:16 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 4:16 p.m. Expectations of a poor commercial crab season are being reinforced by Bodega Bay sport fishermen who are finding plenty of crab but ones just too small to be legal for professional fishermen.

Fishermen are checking, mending and stacking pots and tending to their boats in preparation for the opening of commercial crab season.

How do starfish keep cool when lying on the sand during low tide? Dr Sylvain Pincebourde and colleagues at the University of California, Davis and Bodega Marine Laboratory, Bodega Bay, California, studied starfish in an aquarium, replicating tides and environmental conditions.

Cool starfish One starfish has a remarkable strategy to avoid overheating in the sun, scientists have discovered.

A high-altitude aerial photograph of the California coast reveals some perfectly curved sections of shoreline.

I n 1961, while scouting locations for his movie The Birds , director Alfred Hitchcock came on the village of Bodega Bay in Sonoma County an hour north of San Francisco.