Friday's Featured Film: A Glorious Fourth

If you're out celebrating the Fourth of July, Sea Notes Blog wishes you good fellowship, good food, a great view of the fireworks and a renewed sense of connection on this Day of Interdependence.

Here on the Monterey Peninsula, we're hoping the marine layer lifts long enough so we can see the coastal fireworks display staged by the City of Monterey. (And that everyone but the city will stow their own fireworks -- a critically dry year that already has the Big Sur community in danger).

For your enjoyment, a natural fireworks show from the ocean, courtesy of comb jellies, provided by our colleagues up the coast at the Vancouver Aquarium. Want to learn more about jellies? We've got  information and images from our Jellies: Living Art special exhibition, which closes Sept. 1.