A few weeks now removed from our wedding and I’m realizing I haven’t posted anything on this blog about our wedding…so that will be the next post when I get to it.
Kaycee and I just got back from a trip to Mexico for my sister’s wedding and a Hawaii trip planned this summer with Kaycee’s extended family so we were a little hesitant to plan a honeymoon trip so we decided that Channel Islands National Park would be a good little weekend getaway.
We drove up the day before our trip to the islands to stay in Oxnard the night before. Buena Park to Oxnard is about a two hour drive which I slept for the last 30 minutes. Zzzzzzzz!
The reason we came up a day early is because check-in for the boat ride is 7:15 AM which would have meant we would have had to leave at 5:15 AM the day of to make it. Would rather not do that if we didn’t have to.
The boat tour was through Islands Packers which as far as I know is the only service that goes to the islands. I believe there were three boats that were each going to different islands and there were a few returns boat rides from the island back to the main land.
Kaycee and I went to the island on Memorial Day 2019 and if you remember that Memorial Day, it was windy and the seas were rough. About five minutes into our boat ride, people started headed towards the back off the boat, where Kaycee and I were sitting, because they were feeling queasy. If you get sick on boats or motion sickness in cars, just know it could be a rough ride. The Island Packers folks will warn you.
Once you get to the park you are pretty much free to roam as you would like. Our boat ride back that same day was at 4 PM so we didn’t venture too far off.
We first headed to Cavern Point which is probably about .5 mile away from Scorpion Ranch (where the boat drops you off). After that we ventured to Potato Harbor which is about an additional 1.5 miles away.
The winds were crazy all day and eventually got really annoying so we headed back towards Scorpion Ranch, where we were originally dropped off…the wind was just as bad there. We spent the rest of the afternoon going to the visitor center, laying on the beach and watched the island foxes roam around until are return boat arrived and we headed home.
Lot’s of fun and National Park number 16 for Kaycee and myself!
