In a message dated 10/6/99 8:31:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time, kwhilden_at_u.washington.edu writes: << Harold, I had of course planned to buy a day-use permit for my proposed circumnavigation of SCI. But I had assumed that the day use permit from the Nature Conservancy blanket covered the whole island that they own. Is this not the case? >> Kevin, You should really contact the Nature Conservancy rather than letting me possibly set you astray. Things have been changing, but I believe they were only issuing permits for landing at one or two spots. Whether they really care if you land for a short breather -- I don't know, but I believe they have been pretty hard-nosed about it in the past. A year or so ago, one person who does work for the Conservancy in some manner, told me of how he made the trip from San Miguel to Anacapa. He crossed the Santa Cruz Channel in the wee hours of the AM, landing (with permit) on the west end of SCI to rest and sleep during the morning, then made the long paddle to Scorpion bay (along the north shore) without landing. He was unable to get a permit to camp anywhere on TNC land and only to land on the west end. That's a long paddling day, but it is a lot shorter than going around the south side. << Also, doesn't the National Park owned section of the island allow camping on shore? >> Currently, only at Scorpion Bay -- with all camping restricted to two campgrounds in Scorpion Canyon, the first being maybe 1/4 mile from the beach. Harold. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Oct 11 1999 - 19:42:26 PDT
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