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 ...

Reporting from Santa Cruz Island, Calif. — Before I tell you about my glorious solitude on Santa Cruz Island, let’s be clear that there is some congestion among the coastal cliffs and grassy hills.

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 ...

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 ...

There may not be a better, more advantageous indicator of how a circumnavigation might go around San Miguel than burly Harris ...

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 ...

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 ...