Dakota+Santa+Cruz

**__Santa Cruz Island __**



** __ Santa Cruz Island __ ** **The Santa Cruz Island is a channel island that is about 19 miles from the cost. It is about five miles from Anacapa Island. Santa Cruz Island is the biggest Channel Island in California. There is there is two groups of Channel Islands. There are the Northern Channel Islands and there the Southern Channel Islands. Santa Cruz Island is in the Northern Channel Islands. If you think the Location is amazing prepare yourself for the ****Physical Appearance ****! ** **The Santa Cruz Island is an amazing place to see. It is made of a volcanic formed ( ****igneous ) rock. It looks like it has been weathered and eroded. It looks like a crumbled leaf. When you look at it you can tell that it has been weathered and eroded in to its shape and form that we see now. Santa Cruz Island is an amazing place to look at but if you saw the native and endemic plants on the island your mouth will drop open! ** **The Santa Cruz Island is amazing to see but it wouldn’t look like that if the native and endemic plants weren’t there. My favorite 2 flowers that are on Santa Cruz Island is the ****Northern Island Bush Poppy otherwise known as the Dendromecon Harfordii. I like it for its bright yellow and its orange center. I also like how it only has four pedals. The other one is the Cliff-aster otherwise known as the Malacothrix saxatilis v. implicata. I like how it’s white on the outside and yellow in the center. I think it’s really cool that it only grows on Santa Cruz Island out of all the other California Channel Islands. These are only two flowers out of 100 so if you ever go try to see some of them but another amazing thing to see are the native and endemic animals on the island! ** **Something amazing about Santa Cruz Island is the native and endemic animals that live there. The ****island fox is one of them. The thing that is weird about the fox’s we see here and the fox’s we see there are there colors. There colors are black, white, gray, and brown fur. The ones we see here are orange and black. There are a lot of animals like that. it is called the same thing but looks completely different. The native and endemic animals are amazing. **