Czech Plush Monkey's Adventures!
Monkey sees and does stuff.
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Channel Islands National Park: Anacapa Island

a 3-Part Foto Journal (for faster downloading)

Part 1: The Boat (That's this part.)

Part 2: The Island (That's this part.)

Part 3: The Nasty Bits (Not THAT part!)
A Dark & Stormy Morn.

Can you believe it? Monkey's having 2nd thoughts. The weather's iffy--cold, overcast, windy, barely sprinkling.

"It's more like Czech than California. Maybe this is a bad idea someone had." Opice won't admit whose idea this trip was, of course not.

"And did you see the waves? They're sorta big. I don't get sea-sick but somebody will.

"Maybe we should take that bus tour of the Hollywood movie-stars' security gates?"
Trouble awaiting fullfillment.

Opice boards apprehensively. Then he sees the unstaffed pilot house.

"This boat needs a skipper and here I am! I'll be the captain and drive, and Lukáš can be the cabin boy and shipmate.
Monkey fills the void as Captain.
From passenger to mutineer in one quick skip.
Bouncing thru the waves.

"The weather started getting RUFF.
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the ship's
real crew,
Monkey's lunch 'd be lost!
Monkey's lunch 'd be lost!"
Keeping an eye on the horizon HORIZON horizon...

The boat belongs to Island Packers. They were nice to let Opice play captain. But they knew they couldn't trust him to pilot the ship.

Lukáš thinks he sees a whale's tale. He might on this trip Dec. thru March--not now. He takes a picture anyway because with digital you can burn them to CD and throw them away later.

Photogenic Czech.
Link to Island Packers.

Opice notices similarities between the boat company's logo and the island we're approaching. "It must be Anacapa!"

He made the composite picture (right) from his and his nephew's pix to spoof the Island Packer's logo.
Who knew? Monkey's feet are flukes of nature?!

Monkey re-enacts Island Packers' logo.

Let's explain something about getting onto Anacapa Island. Unless you're a bird you have to come by boat. But our ship can't land on a beach. We must dock at the island's port.
That's not easy because of the waves. In the port's cove the swells rise and fall a foot or two. Today it's more like 3 feet.
Passengers wait to jump onto the island when the boat goes up on a wave's crest to the level of the dock . Thereafter, the ship sinks into the trough and everyone waits for the next swell to disembark.
It's very exciting.

Especially if you're sea-sick, which Opice says he's not, if he could just get on land--fast!
Our boat arrives at the island.

Disembarking the hard way.

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