As I arrived on Anacapa Island, my vision of an idyllic slice of the natural world was shattered by a loud moan — the sound of the foghorn. It surprised me. Out on San Miguel, the most remote of ...

Some 12 miles off the California coast near Ventura, the rugged volcanic ridges that form the spine of Anacapa Island, or more precisely its three closely connected islets, thrust upward from the ...

Watercolor hills unfold toward a sorbet-hued sunset on Santa Cruz Island ... Lighthouse rises above a cliff on the eastern end of Anacapa Island. Completed in 1932, the beacon guided ships ...

Some 12 miles off the California coast near Ventura, the rugged volcanic ridges that form the spine of Anacapa Island, or more precisely its three closely connected islets, thrust upward from the ...

10:37 a.m. April 7, 2023: A previous version of this story stated that passenger steamship Winfield Scott struck Anacapa Island in December of 1953. It struck in December of 1853. As I arrived on ...