#ChannelIslands

Erika Varis Doggetterikavaris@mas.to
2026-01-21

I saw lovely flora and fauna on Santa Cruz Island this weekend. Highly recommend this National Park if you haven’t made it out yet!
Featured: the scrub jay, California grapevine, bluedicks (dichelostemma capitatus ), and island morning glory (calystegia macrostegia)

Didn’t get a pic of the famous foxes, but we did see a shadowy figure of the bushy tailed canid nosing around a neighboring tent at night.

#ChannelIslands #bloomscrolling #birds #NativePlants #California

An island scrub jay posing gracefully on a brush-top, against a blue and white skyA flowering grapevine curving down from its barbed wire horizontal support, the white flowers and green leaf in focus against a softer unfocused green backgroundPretty purple bluedicks flowers standing up in the grassClose up of two white and delicately pink morning glory flowers
Erika Varis Doggetterikavaris@mas.to
2026-01-20

Backpacking with my youngest on Santa Cruz Island, at Del Norte on the Prisoners harbor side. Absolutely gorgeous! I couldn’t get enough of our view from the tent. Well worth it.
#backpacking #hiking #ChannelIslands

Green brush in the foreground from the recent rain, island coastline visible behind it, with the ocean on the left, blue key above with scattered clouds, and my kid in backpacking gear walking on the far rightView from the campsite, with island brush in the foreground, bloody curving coastline on the left, ocean straight in front, and the mainland just visible at the horizon beneath a patchy blanket of blue and white skyView from the campsite at sunset, with the land turned dark and shadowy, the clouds on the horizon lit up with orangey pinks, and the ocean a calm reflective lavenderView of island cliffs in the distance beyond rolling green hills, ocean to the left, and the mainland mountain ridge beyond, clear blue sky above
2026-01-19

Maybe I don’t want to move to New York anymore (coz this is a SoCal winter)

#California #SantaBarbara #Marine #ChannelIslands

A photo of a whale shaped bench with two people looking out to the Channel Islands

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