Trips
Santa Cruz Island is one of the five Channel Islands off the California coast. We took Island Packers boat from Ventura Harbor to Scorpian Achorage on the east side of the island which is under control by the National Park Service. The boat trip is about 23 miles and takes one hour. The west side of the island is controlled by the Nature Conservancy. The island is well protected from human influence....
Prisoner's Harbor - Santa Cruz Island Hike
Mishopshnow (historical), California, United States
Hiking | 6.8 miles
Hiking | 6.8 miles
Second day of the trip. Decided to do the ridge. Wasn't necessarily too long but we did climb like 1,000 feet in a 1.25 miles. The gps used said it was closer to 6 miles so this isn't too much off. This came out to about 1600 feet of gain and the view (what we saw of it) was pretty awesome. We went earlier in the morning and when we got to...
First day on the island after doing three trips from the pier to the upper campgrounds. The ranger said that smugglers was an easy five mile hike. After making it down to smugglers canyon and hangin out on the beach, we trekked back and realized "five miles my a$$". we later found out it was closer to 7.5 miles and this verified it for us. Beautiful scenery. Was ultimately worth the trek...
Smuggler's Cove. Mimi and I took the dinghy to shore and hiked about a bit. We flooded the dinghy both on arrival and departure to shore! Almost we stuck but for the help of some surf god watching us, who paddled over and pushed us out.
