Santa Cruz Island Operator: Island Packers Frequency of Trips: Year round, variable schedule 5 - 7 days per week Travel Time from Ventura Harbor: 1
hour Landing Conditions: Visitors must climb from the boat up a steel - rung ladder to a pier at Scorpion Anchorage and Prisoners Harbor.
«We have to verify the capability of landing at enveloping capsule and soil conditions to make sure that the vehicle will be stable and that the crew will be safe under expected
parachute landing conditions,» Ferguson said.
Campers should come prepared with extra food in case weather or
beach landing conditions prevents us from our planned pick up.
We also have a sorghum crop, increasing dramatically, on less
desirable land conditions (not suited to corn) that supplied 10 - 15 % of last years ethanol feedstock.
A great deal of the work I have been doing recently
concerns land conditions and the movements of glaciers, so although not specifically about sea levels, have a very direct impact on them.