Island Facts: Anacapa Island

 

• Located in Ventura County.
  
  
• Fourteen miles from Ventura.
  
  
• Five miles long and 1/4 mile wide.
  
  
• Average rainfall is between eight and thirteen inches per year.
  
  
• Supports 265 species of plants, including two found only on Anacapa and 20 found only on the Channel Islands.
  
  
• The Anacapa deer mouse is only found on Anacapa Island.
  
  
• West Anacapa is home to the largest breeding colony of California brown pelicans.
  
  
• Scripps's murrelet colonies are recovering following rat eradication in 2002.
  
  
• Frenchy LeDreau lived at Frenchys Cove from 1928 to 1956.
  
  
• The Anacapa lighthouse, turned on in 1932, was the last permanent lighthouse built on the West Coast.
  
  
• Harbor seals and California sea lions rest and breed on the island.
  
  
• Home to 30 sea caves.