Anacapa Island photo thread

[puerco-bellies]

Me and Alison arrived on the island Wednesday afternoon. We had just got about 200lbs of gear and supplies up the 8 flights of stairs (154 steps for those counting at home) and a half mile to the campsite before the storm hit.

Our campsite



Thursday was a beautiful day and we put our fairly new kayak in the water and paddled the entire length of Anacapa Islands exploring sea caves along the way.



The Anacapa Islands are made up of three sections separated by shallows only a few feet apart. This is the arch on the east edge of Eastern Anacapa Island. The arch is fifty foot high and made treacherous with the crossing of wind, waves, and currents. We crossed under it and shot through small caves in it and the surrounding needle rock.





After the roughly ten mile paddle we returned to the dock for our snorkeling gear. We could only take about twenty minutes of the cold water.







On Friday Ali was not feeling well, and the storm hammered us from after noon till about ten this morning. Around that time the skys cleared and we were able to pack our gear down to the dock and get in our kayak before our scheduled boat ride back to the main land.


The light house on East Anacapa

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear puerco-bellies!

Wow, sweetie!

Great pics!

You two know how to live, don't you?

I'm just not that adventurous...

These are wonderful, and I know you had a good time....mostly, anyhow!

Thanks for posting...

And now, trot down the page for my latest!

:hug:

[puerco-bellies]

2. Hi C-P.

I saw your pictures this evening and took our disposable cameras to the CVS next to Ralphs. As soon as I opened your thread Ali was looking over my shoulder and laughed because she knew I would feel obliged to post mine. I just got them back. :-)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I got ya!

I would never dream of competing with you, sweetie!

LOL!

My thread would love to have your comments in it!

:yourock:

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

4. Looks like a wonderful place, PC

:hi:

[puerco-bellies]

5. It is.

This is our second trip to the Channel Island National Park. There are about 4 different islands each unique, with Anacapa being the smallest, and Santa Cruz (our first trip last May) being the largest.

http://www.nps.gov/chis/

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Without the storm, there would have been no rainbow.

Nice pix, p-b.

[lost-in-nj]

7. Beautiful

You always have such wonderful pictures....


thanks for sharing them....


lost

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

8. Oh, how I love your picture threads!

They always take me out of eastern Kentucky for a while, where these days all the pictures seem to be of mountains being torn down. Your pictures warm my heart!

[puerco-bellies]

9. For those who liked the pictures, here's some more.

Paddling along middle Anacapa Island



The reef at the end of Rat Rock the Western end of the Anacapa Island chain.



A look east from the bluff just above the campground on East Anacapa



Edited to get the directions right

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear puerco-bellies!

Oh, very nice!

You two know how to live, don't you?

I'm just too comfortable in my travels to be this adventurous...

Glad to see you're wearing a life jacket!

:hug: