Alexandra Gillespie is a freelance journalist who covers scuba diving, underwater wildlife, and travel. Her work has appeared in media outlets including Outside, National Geographic, Scuba Diving, and ...

Of the eight Channel Islands flanking our Southern California coast, it’s the northern ones, like Santa Cruz and Anacapa Island, that get the most attention from adventurous hikers. But there’s a ...

Point Bennett is a spit of sand and rock and crumbling cliffs, stretching out about a mile in front of us before trailing into the Pacific Ocean. We lie on our bellies at the lip of a sand dune, ...