E32-200 Farallon Islands, Whales, Beginnaker Experiments

California offers coastal visitors only a few island-visiting opportunities. Los Angeles has the lovely Catalina group, Santa Barbara is near the Channel Islands, but from the San Francisco Bay, we have only the Farallon Island archipelago. Located 25 miles off the Golden Gate the Farallones are wonderful for seal recreation, shark procreation, and seabird defecation. Not a good place for a wine mixer, but a destination nonetheless.

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