It will take one hour for the ferry to transport us from Ventura to Santa Cruz Island, approximately 26 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara.
No water source, no convenience store, no campfires.
Some good old-fashioned hippie fun, I suppose.
It’s sort of wild. Everything we need for the weekend – tent, sleeping bag, clothes, food, water – must fit in our backpacks.
And we can’t go piling it up in our arms, because once the boat drops you off on Santa Cruz, it is a mile hike to the campsite and you must carry your own things.
Canned tuna seems like a compact and healthy food source so long as I remember to bring a bag of salt and pepper and buy the kind canned in olive oil (just thinking about dry tuna makes me thirsty).
Water seems like it’s going to be a bit more complicated.
We will depart Ventura around 1 p.m. on Friday May 20th and leave Santa Cruz at noon on Sunday May 22.
Sorry Boomer, but I’m not sure a birthday cake will fit in my pack.
Wake and Wander 
It will be a test of wit and survival! It should prove to be the most interesting birthday weekend to date for me! When the end of the world happens in 2012, the Channel Islands is where I will be! Who’s coming with me?!
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Actually there is water at the Santa Cruz Island campground (I went in June 2009) unless you are going to the backcountry sites which do not. I’m jealous, the Channel Islands are awesome! Have fun.
Hi Katie…hope San Fran is good! We are going to east scorpion. There is a water supply there?
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