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    Quote Originally Posted by sleddog View Post
    Since Ants correctly answered our geography question as being Lobo Canyon on Santa Rosa Island, we will use off-the-beaten path to Santa Rosa Island in another quiz, this time for 2 TJ's lemon bars for first to answer. Who or what first swam from the California mainland to Santa Rosa Island?

    1) A cornucopia of banana slugs.
    2) An earth of island foxes.
    3) Lynne Cox on a training swim.
    4) Juana María, who began the crossing on the Rainbow Bridge, but jumped off to swim with the dolphins below
    5) A parade of woolly mammoths sniffing island scents with their snorkel like trunks
    6) A mischief of now extinct giant mice.
    7) A munchkin dudleya
    8) The now protected wima.
    9) A clowder of saber-tooth cats.

    PS, Has any reader visited Santa Rosa Island? It's the least visited National Park. I've anchored there, but never made it ashore. Too windy.

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    We anchored the 80'schooner Shearwater there many years ago. On the east side, there is a huge cave that you can row a skiff into. I don't remember the name of the cave. Does anyone else know it ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MillyB View Post
    We anchored the 80'schooner Shearwater there many years ago. On the east side, there is a huge cave that you can row a skiff into. I don't remember the name of the cave. Does anyone else know it ?
    Painted Cave is a wonder, 12th largest sea cave in the world, 1,227 feet long and 130 feet high. It is located on Santa Cruz Island's north shore, about 10 miles from its neighbor, Santa Rosa Island, and accessible only by water.

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    My crew and I anchored off Becher’s Bay in 1980 or ‘81 (no log book and fuzzy memory). The time was November so summer winds were not a concern. We arrived after dark to find a single light on a small pier with no other references. The area was near uniform depth so the depth sounder was not useful to gauge the distance from shore (long before GPS and electronic navigation). No useful moonlight either to judge distances.

    The access to the various islands was in transition between former private owners and NPS. To gain access, there was a need to call a telephone in Santa Barbara and request access. Since the permission step was not completed, we rowed around in the dinghy.

    After seeing the photos from prior posts, we missed a lot. Oh well. Live and learn.

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    PS. I am not sure if the contest has been settled.

    My second guess, if allowed, is the sabre tooth tiger.

    There is certainly a conflict between the ages when the prehistoric animals and the apparent age of the island. One written source said the island formed 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. The finding of prehistoric animal bones would date their occurrence to 13,000 to 15,000 years ago. The information was from more than one source.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntsUiga View Post
    There is certainly a conflict between the ages when the prehistoric animals and the apparent age of the island. One written source said the island formed 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. The finding of prehistoric animal bones would date their occurrence to 13,000 to 15,000 years ago. The information was from more than one source.
    Hi Ants, Interesting stuff, the age of the Channel Islands, including Santa Rosa. There is proof the northern Channel Islands were inhabited from the sea, not from the land. These seafaring peoples were the first to inhabit North America, at least 13,000 years ago. The Arlington Springs man, actually a woman, discovered in 1959 on Santa Rosa Island, has been radiocarbon dated to 13,000 years ago, the oldest skeleton on the North American continent. At this time, the northern Channel Islands were still united together in one mega-island.

    So yes, it is likely that pygmy mammoths, sabertooth tigers, and other now extinct mammals were present on the island when the first humans arrived by boat from Alaska and Siberia.
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    Legendary WINDWARD PASSAGE, aka "Passage," and "WP," built on a beach in the Bahamas, is now 55 years old. What a boat. I first raced on her in the 1971 Transpac when we broke the elapsed time record and won overall as shown in this painting hung at CBC.

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    PASSAGE lives today and if you want to see WP in all her beauty, smoothness, and power, her she is in a glorious short video shot 2 weeks ago during the Newport Harbor YC Opening Day race from LA Harbor to Newport.

    https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.beck...11844690632904
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    What a great video of Windward Passage, what lovely photos by Stephen. This forum offers so much enjoyment. I love it. I look here every morning over coffee. Only then do I turn to the ickiness in newspapers.

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