Tyler



Anacapa Island is in my opinion the best of all the other channel islands. It is teeming with life and is made entirely of igneous rock( or Miocene). Anacapa is made up of three islets and if you look at it with a birds eye veiw it looks like a long slender lizard with part of its back and tail sticking up above water. One of the most famous things about anacapa island is its Arch. The Anacapa arch is a rock that is an arch of stone above water. The rock on the islets has been weathered and eroded so that it has a lot of sheer cliffs and jagged rocks. It also has lots a of caves and fissures in the rock. That concludes my paragraph of Anacapa Islands physical appearance.Even though Anacapa has an amazing appearance, Its location is marvelous once you learn about it.

Anacapa Island is a beautiful island located off of the shore of any beach in Ventura. It is in The west side of the Pacific ocean and is one of the smallest channel islands there is. Mainly when you look out to the ocean from Ventura beach's you see two islands. The one on the left is Anacapa Island. The other one is Santa Cruz and that is only five miles east of Anacapa. On the map its latitude would be 34* and -119.4* longitude. Anacapa is northwest from Santa Barbara Island. Although Anacapa’s appearance is truly remarkable, Its animal inhabitants are very interesting.

There are mainy native animals on Anacapa island, The California Brown Pelican is a bird th at is coming back from being on the verge of extinction. They live and nest on mainly the two islands Anacapa and Santa Barbara. Their diet consists of fish and also shrimp. A really cool fact about these birds is that the male and female brown pelicans take turns incubating the eggs, and they usually only have three eggs total.The Xantus’ Murrelet is a very rare bird because it nests only in four locations off the west and east coast’s of North America. It is very cautious about where and when it lays its eggs. they lay their eggs at night so they wont be stolen and eaten by rats. Despite their efforts their eggs are still taken by rats. A cool thing about these birds is more than 25% of these birds live and nest in the channel islands. The blue whales are the earths largest animal ever. They are so big but feed on a microscopic organism’s like plankton and krill. They are a staggering 110 feet long and can weigh up to 120 tons, that’s 240,000 pounds. Blue whales are almost extinct since people have been hunting them for a long time. Their have been increasing amounts of the Blue Whale sightings by Anacapa island and Monterey bay. Despite the fact that anacapa has many interesting animals, The plants that inhabit its surface are wonderful as well.

Anacapa Island is home to many wondrous plants. A lot of these are on other channel islands as well. One of these plants is the Cliff-aster(Malacothrix saxatilis v. implicata) and is a beautiful plant belonging to the sunflower family. It is yellow in the center and fades into white towards the outside. The Island paintbrush (Castilleja lanata s. hololeuca) is in the figwort family, but is likely going to be changed. It is a tall red and green plant that is a masterpiece of nature. The Island Morning Glory (Calystegia macrostegia s. macrostegia) is a beautiful plant that exists on Anacapa island. This plant has a yellow star in its center and white leaves. That concludes my paragraph on the endemic and native plants on Anacapa island. Obviously, by what I have shown you, you can tell that anacapa is an amazing island. It has a spectacular location and appearance. Its Inhabitants ( Plants and Animals) are very unique and absolutely amazing. Hopefully, Now you will look at Anacapa Island a little differently.