[CINC] Still true!

[paul jr petrich]

CINC, CINP, and CINMS Colleagues, 
 OK: I pinch myself  24 hours later and it is still true. Given there are so many hard working and passionate people in the CINC,being the recipient of  the Blue Whale Award is truly, truly humbling. Tara kept it a total secret from me.
   One small correction about the all too generous script provided by Tara and Shauna: My access to San Clemente Island as a teen was not through my dad. At the time he was a captain on a recently commissioned California Fish and Game research vessel, as well as an officer in the Naval Reserve. Such a miss-step would have got him expelled from both. San Clemente was, and is, all US Navy territory. In fact, Frank Hall, then a skipper of a sport fishing vessel out of 22nd Street Landing in San Pedro dropped his deckhand, me, off on the island to retrieve an anchor we lost on a previous trip. I got to explore a little while waiting for a minus tide, and for Frank to comeback from fishing another cove. According to Marla Daily, All Eight  landings don't have to be legal!  Keep on Swimmin!  Paul    P.S. Buster Hyder, of Santa Barbara Island fame, owned 22nd Street Landing at the time.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.rain.org/pipermail/channel_islands_naturalist_corps/attachments/20130123/ae5961e7/attachment.html>