<div>Hi All,</div>
<div>The very cute kid peeking in the wheehouse on the Vanguard with Capt Jason is none other than Jackson!!!! The newest intern--make sure you say HI to him when you go out to Anacapa. He loves his summer job--the CINMS classes with mom are paying off :0)</div>
<div>Lisa<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/6/08, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:staci@savzsea.com">staci@savzsea.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:staci@savzsea.com">staci@savzsea.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Very good article about Island Packers in todays July 6th Ventura County<br>Star newspaper.<br>Also on the same page (on the web) in the Media player is a short but<br>
informative video about San Nicolas Island.<br><br><a href="http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/06/still-on-board/">http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/jul/06/still-on-board/</a><br><br>Family-run Island Packers takes visitors to see ocean life and on trips<br>
to the islands<br><br>Just off our coast, humpback whales are leaping out of water, to the<br>delight of throngs, and blue whales, the largest sentient beings ever,<br>are about to arrive for a summer's stay. At Anacapa Island, the foghorn<br>
sounds every 12 seconds — an especially eerie groan in the dead of<br>night. Campsites on nearby Santa Cruz Island are as popular as ever.<br>Farther out, the wind howls at San Miguel Island with a fury that<br>stretches back before recorded time. For 40 years now, another constant<br>
has been Island Packers, the Ventura-based boat company that has been<br>the public's gateway to marine wildlife, hiking, camping, sea dives and<br>a host of other experiences in Channel Islands National Park.<br><br>
Providing service to a string of rocks strewn across the local expanse<br>of sea is not your average everyday bit of commerce. Nor is the story of<br>Island Packers an ordinary one.<br><br>Island Packers began as Bill Connally's dream .....<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Lisa <br><br>"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. <br>Rather we should thank God that such men lived."<br>-General George S. Patton, Jr.