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'''December 4, 1898 [LAT]:''' “San Clemente. A fortnight’s hunting trip on this little-known island. We left Long Beach one fine morning in the latter part of August for a camping and hunting trip on San Clemente… It is not easy suitable to describe Castle Rock at the west end of San Clemente… Seal Harbor is a few miles further on… We arrived at our stopping place, Smugglers Cove about 11 P.M., dropped the mud hook, waited for daybreak…” | '''December 4, 1898 [LAT]:''' “San Clemente. A fortnight’s hunting trip on this little-known island. We left Long Beach one fine morning in the latter part of August for a camping and hunting trip on San Clemente… It is not easy suitable to describe Castle Rock at the west end of San Clemente… Seal Harbor is a few miles further on… We arrived at our stopping place, Smugglers Cove about 11 P.M., dropped the mud hook, waited for daybreak…” | ||
'''July 27, 1910 [SBMP]:''' “The Long Beach correspondence of yesterday’s Herald tells of the harrowing experiences of a yachting party that visited Santa Barbara a few days ago. The story follows: Almost starved and in a weakened condition, six Long Beach youths who sailed away a week and a half ago in the sloop Diana for a cruise among the islands and to Santa Barbara, reached home this morning after enduring unusually strenuous experiences on the trip from Santa Barbara. Leaving there at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon, the boys expected to get here Saturday evening at the latest. They took provisions for a day and a half. Instead, the trip took them sixty-eight hours. They cut down their rations and since Saturday night had only small portions of beans or of bread apiece. Yesterday morning their water supply got so low that it was apportioned out, a half cupful to a man, to last him for the rest of the trip. Leaving Santa Barbara under sail the Diana soon encountered a dead calm. The engine was started, but a little later the clutch refused to work, and the boys did not have tools with them to repair it. They drifted for a long time, an occasionally a faint breeze helped them along. The boys fished but could not get a bite. Finally they reached the breakwater at San Pedro last night. It took them ten hours to get from there to the Long Beach pier. On arriving there, they made a break for the nearest restaurant and devoured enormous breakfasts. In the party were Roger Roe, Phillip and Richard Bixby, Frank Vial, Clement Nadeau and Wilmont Long, all members of the Elk Rodeo Club. The news had reached here that also John Ruggs, a high school student, and Frank Randall, also of Long Beach, were driven into Smugglers Cove at San Clemente Island a week ago and compelled to remain there three days until the heavy seas subsided. They had only one day’s rations and when they gave out they found a hermit’s house by walking ten miles. The hermit shared his food with them gladly. The youths were in a small Avalon boat.” | |||
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Smugglers Cove, San Clemente Island
In the News~
December 4, 1898 [LAT]: “San Clemente. A fortnight’s hunting trip on this little-known island. We left Long Beach one fine morning in the latter part of August for a camping and hunting trip on San Clemente… It is not easy suitable to describe Castle Rock at the west end of San Clemente… Seal Harbor is a few miles further on… We arrived at our stopping place, Smugglers Cove about 11 P.M., dropped the mud hook, waited for daybreak…”
July 27, 1910 [SBMP]: “The Long Beach correspondence of yesterday’s Herald tells of the harrowing experiences of a yachting party that visited Santa Barbara a few days ago. The story follows: Almost starved and in a weakened condition, six Long Beach youths who sailed away a week and a half ago in the sloop Diana for a cruise among the islands and to Santa Barbara, reached home this morning after enduring unusually strenuous experiences on the trip from Santa Barbara. Leaving there at 1 o’clock Friday afternoon, the boys expected to get here Saturday evening at the latest. They took provisions for a day and a half. Instead, the trip took them sixty-eight hours. They cut down their rations and since Saturday night had only small portions of beans or of bread apiece. Yesterday morning their water supply got so low that it was apportioned out, a half cupful to a man, to last him for the rest of the trip. Leaving Santa Barbara under sail the Diana soon encountered a dead calm. The engine was started, but a little later the clutch refused to work, and the boys did not have tools with them to repair it. They drifted for a long time, an occasionally a faint breeze helped them along. The boys fished but could not get a bite. Finally they reached the breakwater at San Pedro last night. It took them ten hours to get from there to the Long Beach pier. On arriving there, they made a break for the nearest restaurant and devoured enormous breakfasts. In the party were Roger Roe, Phillip and Richard Bixby, Frank Vial, Clement Nadeau and Wilmont Long, all members of the Elk Rodeo Club. The news had reached here that also John Ruggs, a high school student, and Frank Randall, also of Long Beach, were driven into Smugglers Cove at San Clemente Island a week ago and compelled to remain there three days until the heavy seas subsided. They had only one day’s rations and when they gave out they found a hermit’s house by walking ten miles. The hermit shared his food with them gladly. The youths were in a small Avalon boat.”
