Hello Friends! On this episode we awake under hook at Santa Barbara Island. We get a visit from our marina neighbor Sam of SV Yardbird who sailed up and dropped his hook at sunset. Yardbird is a 23ft Ranger and Sam is a complete maniac ! He hand paddled over to us with his flippers because he lost his oars at Catalina. Sam is currently preparing to sail to Hawaii on Yardbird this April and has since added a windvane steering system, Solar and more. A True Sailing Maniac! check out his youtube channel at : https://www.youtube.com/user/SamoPajamo/ After breakfast, some drone flights and some skinny dipping, we pushed off for the backside of Catalina but not before circumnavigating this small island. Our viewer Dennis Patrick suggested we give more information about the island itself and its history on our last video so we took his advice. Here is the transcript from the voice over talking about this small island. "Santa Barbara Island is a small island 35 nautical miles from the California Coast. It is the smallest in the Channel islands chain, only a mile and a half wide and a mile long, It is entirely treeless and covered in gently sloping grassland that meets the sea as cliffs, a number of endemic plants and a rare night lizard call the island home There is also a large sea lion rookery on the western side just past Arch point and is a great nesting habitat for sea birds including the world's largest breeding colonies of the rare Scripps's Murrelets. The highest peak on Santa Barbara Island is Signal Hill that stands 634 ft above the sea and gives sweeping 360-degree views. Sutil Island, which is more of a very big rock, sits just off the islands southern most edge. Native American peoples, probably the Chumash and Tongva, occupied Santa Barbara Island periodically for millennia. Archaeological sites dating to as much as 4,000 years ago have been documented on the island, which may have served as a stopover or refuge point for voyagers between the mainland and the other Channel Islands. Today there is a ranger station, and only those rangers and the occasional campers and cruisers visit Santa Barbara Island. Even fewer people visit now since the landing was washed out in a storm. Even though it’s a little lonely, we’re looking forward to coming back some day, especially to dive the immense kelp beds surrounding this tiny chunk of California. " After making our way through the kelp beds and past Sutil Island we had a slow sail / motorsail to Catalina and spent much of the day naked in the sun, just has boat living should be! Due to the lack of wind and our lack of leaving at sunrise we arrived into Little Harbor after dark and had our first experience with night anchoring.... but more about that next week. Also this week we have our first "A STERN VIEW PODCAST" episode together so check that out on iTunes. Thanks for all of your wonderful congratulatory comments last week! We are grateful for your support and kindness and are happy to get to share this sailing trip with you! Thanks to our Patrons, Your contributions help us get the boat in order to do big things! Until Next Week, James & Camille & SV Triteia Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailorjames website: http://svtriteia.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/james.the.sailor.man http://www.instagram.com/cum_eels