Dec
12
2011
ShareClose Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / BookmarksAskbackflipblinklistBlogBookmarkBloglinesBlogMarksBlogsvineBuddyMarksBUMPzee!CiteULikeco.mmentsConnoteadel.icio.usDiggdiigoDotNetKicksDropJackdzoneFacebookFarkFavesFeed Me LinksFriendsitefolkd.comFurlGoogleHuggJamespotJeqqKaboodlekirtsylinkaGoGoLinkedInLinksMarkerMa.gnoliaMister WongMixxMySpaceMyWebNetvouzNewsvineoneviewOnlyWirePlugIMPropellerRedditRojoSegnaloShoutwireSimpySlashdotSphereSphinnSpurlSquidooStumbleUponTechnoratiThisNextTwitterWebrideWindows LiveWorlds MoviesYahoo!Email This to a FriendCopy HTML: If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed.Powered by Bookmarkify™ More » Landing Cove at the far east end of Anacapa Island is the only place that you can gain access to the [...]
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Nov
13
2011
Cattle, vaqueros, horses, tack, a sprawling ranch house, the foreman’s place — we’ll all be able to get a close look at the artifacts of the ranching, and — later — hunting operation on Santa Rosa Island very soon. Though we, the taxpayers, bought the property 25 years ago for $30 million, our access has [...]
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May
14
2011
This is a new film from the National Park Service portraying the lush/stark/beauty of our islands and extolling the virtues of conservation. The voice over is Kevin Costner, a local boy. How local? Costner attended elementary school at McKevette School in Santa Paula, California, Cabrillo Jr. High School and Buena High in Ventura, though he [...]
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Jan
29
2011
Twenty-11 was brand new when the first incident at sea happened this year. I have a personal interest in this one as the Bosun and I planned a New Year’s run to Santa Cruz, just as the folks in this story did. We checked the weather a couple of times every day for a week [...]
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Sep
20
2010
About a year ago, the California Air Resources Board decided that the International Maritime Organization’s initiatives to clean up foul-burning bunker fuel fumes was going too slowly and mandated that ships burning the stuff could come no closer than 24 miles to our coast. The picture at the top is what the air in the [...]
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