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Eunice Felton
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Eunice Felton, from Santa Barbara, wrote an account in her diary of her experience camping on Santa Cruz Island at Cueva Valdez about 1890.
After our first raptures had subsided, we set about raising the tents and preparing camp. The desire for food was not slow to make itself felt, and we now discovered to our dismay, that an unknown individual who taken passage with us but had kept silence because of seasickness was not a cook as we had supposed him to be. We found also that there were no cooking utensils. As night came on, the wild influence of nature, the barking of the sea lions and the dashing of the waves on the beach impressed us with a great sense of the remoteness and solitude of the place. But there was a wonderful beauty in the scene as both the sea and shore were lighted by the moon, which was hidden from us by the overhanging. Towering cracks.
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59 seconds
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NPS
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06/04/2016
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