My friend Craig and I were nearing the end of our paddling excursion through Channel Islands National Park: a circumnavigation of Santa Rosa Island, followed by an open ocean sprint through pea soup ...

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Ventura, on the California coast, is the jumping-off point for exploring one of the newest national parks, the Channel Islands. The park consists of five islands that range from one to nearly 100 ...

I was reminded of this most recently during an April daytrip to Scorpion Anchorage on Santa Cruz Island with the Santa Barbara Adventure Company, which offers guided kayak trips along the craggy ...

The four main islands of Channel Islands National Park are as close as 13 miles off Ventura County’s coast, yet neither my husband, Michael, nor I had been there. In May, we decided to check out Santa ...

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I scanned the brittle, pock-marked walls of a dark sea cave within Santa Cruz Island, one of the Channel Islands off the west coast of California. The caves harbor pelagic cormorants and pigeon ...

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SINCE THE BEGINNING of time, man has been fascinated with caves. Dark, dank and mysterious, they test the very depths of our imagination. But while man lived for centuries in caves on dry land, it’s ...

The trip: Backpacking to the primitive Del Norte Campground on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the Channel Islands. What to do: Hiking, swimming, wildlife-viewing, stargazing, defending camp from ...