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View of Dana Point Harbor with the ship Pilgrim berthed at the Ocean Institute in the foreground The harbor, built in the 1960s and dedicated on July 31, 1971, [ 13 ] is home to a marina, shops, and restaurants, and is a point of departure for the Catalina Express , a transportation service to and from the City of Avalon on Catalina Island.
The Ocean Institute welcomes over 100,000 school children annually for ocean science and maritime history programs. The Ocean Institute is an ocean education organization located in Dana Point, California. Founded as the Orange County Marine Institute in 1977, it offers ocean science and maritime history programs for K–12 students and their ...
Brig Pilgrim off Santa Barbara in 1996. Pilgrim was an early 19th century American sailing brig. She was immortalized by one of her sailors Richard Henry Dana Jr., who wrote the classic account Two Years Before the Mast about a 1834–1835 voyage between Massachusetts and California to trade for hides.
Dana Point SMCA is one of 36 new marine protected areas adopted by the California Fish and Game Commission in December, 2010 during the third phase of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. The MLPAI is a collaborative public process to create a statewide network of protected areas along California’s coastline.
Doheny State Beach (known colloquially as Doho) is known as the first state beach in the California state park system. [1] Located on the Pacific Ocean in the city of Dana Point, the beach is adjacent to several surf spots and scenic beaches including Salt Creek Beach, Baby Beach, and Capistrano Beach. [2]
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So Dana, along with others of the Pilgrim ' s and later Alert ' s crews, tosses the hides from the bluffs, which he compared to flying a kite without a string. Some hides get stuck part way down the cliff and Dana is lowered with ropes to retrieve them. The headlands, along with the adjacent present day city, took on Dana's name as Dana Point.
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