Carlos+Santa+Cruz

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz is the ** biggest privately owned **island off the coast of the United States. Santa Cruz is 97 square miles (62,000 acres) and about **22 miles long** and about 2 to 6 miles wide depending on where you are. It is 4 times as large as MANHATTAN!!! Now that you know where Santa Cruz is located its time you know what Santa Cruz looks like. Santa Cruz is located of the coast of Ventura. When you go to any Ventura beach you will see two islands when you look out to sea, the one to the right  is Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is the biggest out of the 8 Channel Islands. Santa Cruz is a very beautiful island made by igneous rock and sedimentary rock. You know what Santa Cruz looks like and where it is so its time I told you about some animals that live on Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz has many animals living under and over the water. Probaly the most famous animal is the island fox which ** only ** lives on the Channel Islands. The island fox ** used ** to be endangered, but has made a ** tremendous ** comeback.

Another animal that lives on Santa Cruz is the Garabaldi, which is California's state fish. The Garibaldi is orange and about 12 inches in length. The Garabaldi lives in waters about 100 ft deep. Adult Garibaldis hatch their eggs in 19-21 days. Garabaldis have a diet of Sponges, bryozoans, worms, crustaceans. You have took the basic tour of Santa Cruz but you haven’t heard about any plants that live on Santa Cruz. The Giant kelp lives from Ano Nuevo to Baja California. The Giant Kelp lives in rocky sub tidal zones. The Giant Kelp has a diet of photosynthesis **. ** Giant Kelp has air pockets so they stay up instead of flopping down. The Island Big Pod lives only on the Channel Islands. The Island Big Pod has a diet of photosynthesis. The Island Big Pod can grow up to 3 meters high. This fruit is a red green capsule about 1 centimeter wide.