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Awesome pics! Too bad about the kidney stone and the eye though. I guess you could have picked a worse place to pass it though!
 
I dont know if I missed it but what Island where you on? I saw the pic of Annacappa but wasnt sure if that was from the mainland or Santa Cruz. What a great trip report. I googled Island Packers and there site says they'll take your kayak over for between 14 and 20 dollars. This is now on my must do list.

Thanks so much for the info

Matt
 
Way cool, thanks for the great pictures! It would be cool to see the foxes in the wild.

Have the doctor look at that eye if it does not get better.
 
That's my hood!!!!
I stare at those islands everyday!!

Where did you get the fish hooks? :eek:
During the late morning of January 14, 1997, 20 heavily armed federal agents and local sheriff's deputies descended from a military helicopter onto rocky Santa Cruz Island off the California coast. As snipers moved into position along the ridge tops to secure the perimeter of the attack area, other agents staged dynamic entries into the buildings -- rousting 15-year-old Crystal Graybeel who was sleeping late in her cabin.
"They started screaming, 'Put your hands where we can see them.' They unzipped my sleeping bag. I had to get face down on the floor and they handcuffed me," the teenager said. She recalled the intruders wore ski masks and carried machine guns. They kept her handcuffed for two hours.
The target of the raid? A 6,500-acre bow-and-arrow hunting ranch, the last bastion of private property on the island. The raid resulted in three arrests -- volunteer Rick Berg, 35, and caretakers Dave Mills, 34, and Brian Krantz, 33 -- on suspicion of robbing Chumash Indian graves and taking human remains and artifacts, charges they denied.
The agency responsible for all this was not the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, nor the FBI, nor any other agency typically associated with such "dynamic entries." This raid was the work of the National Park Service.
Surprised? So were local residents. Though no lives were lost, the raid inspired a firestorm of protest. "It saddens me that the Park Service has resorted to Ruby Ridge tactics," said Marla Daily, president of the Santa Cruz Island Foundation, referring to the September 1992 standoff between the FBI and Randy Weaver that resulted in the death of Weaver's wife. "This incident clearly crosses the line," Daily said.
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The guests ended up suing the SWAT/NPS guys for pointing their guns at the rich people who donated money to the Channel Islands Conservatory

I never knew about those cave houses
My good friends dad is the head honcho on Santa Cruz Island
He is a world renowed Channel Islands Fox expert
I'll ask him about the houses....

Thanks for posting the pics!!
Did you go into Santa Barbara at all??
 
Very cool pictures. That looks like an awesome trip. Too bad about the kidney stone. That had to have hurt.
 
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