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West of the West: Tales from California's kanal Islands is a documentary consisting of fourteen Channel Islands stories from multiple islands filmed over the course of three years. Produced, written, directed and filmed by Sam Tyler, Peter Seaman and Brent Sumner, the spelfilm was released March 5, 2016 at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara at a sold-out show.

WEST OF THE WEST: TALES

1. First People: Island rotation—the Channel Islands Relocated; Arlington Man—Oldest human remains in North amerika discovered; First contact—the voyage of Cabrillo— the 'discovery of the Channel Islands in 1542; Sa Hi Pa Ca—an archaeological dig on Santa Cruz Island and its cultural significance; The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island—A native woman survives alone for 18 years

2. Settlers: gods round-up—Island cattle ranching ends as a National Park is born; Graveyard of ships—the wreck of the Winfield Scott on Anacapa Island; Magic Isle—the glory years of Catalina an

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Sailing The Channel Islands

(gentle music) - [Jeff] We're getting closer to Catalina right now.

And as we get up here we've got some dolphins.

We're coming up on a bunch of dolphins right now.

Here they come, right at us and woo, there they go.

They just turned and now they're swimming right with us.

Now they're right underneath us, just beautiful spinner dolphins, man.

You gotta love these guys.

They are just having a blast playing with us out here right now.

Ah, man.

So beautiful.

We're basically surrounded by dolphins right now, which is awesome.

Look at these guys.

They're so agile and they're so they just move so effortlessly through the water.

And how lucky are we to be having this moment right here?

That you can only have when you're out on the seas in a boat like this.

Just incredible.

Are you guys seeing this, Zach?

Get up on the bow, man, you're missing it.

Look right down here, Zach.

Get right down her

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Channel Islands (California)

Archipelago off the coast of southern California, US

The Channel Islands (Spanish: islas del Canal, Archipiélago del Norte) are an eight-island archipelago located within the Southern California Bight in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of California. They define the Santa Barbara Channel between the islands and the California mainland. The four Northern Channel Islands are part of the Transverse Rangesgeologic province, and the four Southern Channel Islands are part of the Peninsular Ranges province.^[1] Five of the islands are within the Channel Islands National Park. The waters surrounding these islands make up Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. The Nature Conservancy was instrumental in establishing the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

The Chumash Native Americans, and later the Tongva, lived on the islands from around 13,000 to 7000 years ago until they were displaced by the Spaniards in the 1800s, who us