CABRILLO BEACH, Calif. – Lit by the moon, our camp chairs planted in the darkened waves, we wait for the best late-night show on the Southern California coast: the mating of the grunion.
Nowhere else on earth do fish ride the high tide to spawn out of water, and watching the animal kingdom procreate in a silvery wet spectacle is a wondrous sight. For travelers, as for Californians, the annual grunion runs are a free and novel adventure.
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Peak spawning is late March to early June, but thousands of grunion flop ashore through summer's end. They arrive only about eight nights each month: four consecutive nights with the new moon, and another four with the first full moon. On those nights, the grunion ride ashore on the highest tides.
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