Hop aboard your sea kayak to see what the islands are all about. Carlos Gandiaga Photography/Getty Images Like the towering limestone cliffs of Vietnam's Hạ Long Bay and the glacier-carved Lofoten ...

I scanned the brittle, pock-marked walls of a dark sea cave within Santa Cruz Island, one of the Channel Islands off the west coast of California. The caves harbor pelagic cormorants and pigeon ...

The Los Angeles region has many secrets and Channel Islands National Park is one of them. The group of islands off the coast of Ventura and Santa Barbara are easily seen from the crowded beaches of ...

A journey to the Galapagos Islands should be on every nature lover's bucket list. However, if that trip is a little too far or expensive this summer, you can achieve your own "Galapagos"-style ...

The kayakers negotiate the crease in the rock and follow a narrow passageway into a spacious cavern, where they pause, as if with great trepidation. But it’s mostly just awe. No more daylight. No ...

The trip: Backpacking to the primitive Del Norte Campground on Santa Cruz Island, the largest of the Channel Islands. What to do: Hiking, swimming, wildlife-viewing, stargazing, defending camp from ...

You don’t have to travel to the South Pacific to entertain dreams of desert islands. There’s a chain of uninhabited islands — Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Rosa, Santa Barbara and San Miguel — just off ...

PASSION FOR PADDLING: Longtime Carpinteria resident Chuck Graham turned his love for the outdoors into a dynamic career. He works the beaches as a lifeguard, guides tourists around on kayak, and ...

There may not be a better, more advantageous indicator of how a circumnavigation might go around San Miguel than burly Harris Point. Located on the northwest fringe of the island, it’s always been ...

An 8th grader from Santa Barbara wanted to do something special to mark his 13th birthday, so he decided to create a GoFundMe page and kayak 13 miles from Anacapa Island to Oxnard to raise money and ...