Before visiting the Channel Islands – situated an hour off the California coast at its nearest ... rough seas scupper my trip to Santa Rosa, the second largest island in the group, known for ...

Lobo Canyon Trail on Santa Rosa Island offers a stunning ... take a ferry for three hours to reach the Channel Islands from Ventura, in Southern California, this accounts for why Channel Islands ...

Shaped by millennia of natural and human history, California's Channel Islands are an archipelago ... immaculate beaches and ...

Last year, 22 known bald eagle chicks fledged from nests on the Channel ... other islands on their own," he said. Last year, just over two dozen eggs hatched on Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Catalina ...

For the lucky people who had a chance to visit Channel Islands National ... was remarkably calm as the Island Explorer catamaran set out from Ventura Harbor toward Santa Cruz Island, the largest ...