Santa Rosa Channel Islands National Park Part 2: the most underrated USA National Park we've been to yet!
Because there's no way to adequately describe our time on Santa Rosa Channel Islands in one post, here's part 2, the more detailed day by day written by Dan : Day 1 - Arrival at Santa Rosa Island (Saturday) The alarm went off at 545am. Ugh. Way too early. Trista and I slowly got up and around and took our final showers for the next several days. We had packed our packs the night before so it was just a matter of dragging ourselves out of bed and out to the car. We needed to be to the harbor by 7am for our 8am departure with Island Packers. For $120 round trip they were going to take us out to the island and back as well as transport our main packs. It is about a 2.5-3 hour ride to get out there. The boat ride itself ends up being something else. We stop multiple times along the way to whale watch and see several humpback and grey whales at different stops along the way. Amazing! We eventually reach the pier and are met by a park ranger who is there to give us some ground ru
