- Getting to Santa Barbara Island requires a 2½ - or 3-hour boat ride, and Island Packers runs only about a dozen trips each year (April to October).
- The rocky shores of Santa Barbara Island also provide resting and breeding areas for California sea lions, harbor seals and northern elephant seals.
- Rocky cliff-edge and Sutil Islet, early Summer, Santa Barbara Island. Small canyon in Spring, with blooming Giant CoreopsisSanta Barbara Island.
- County: Santa Barbara County. Distance to the nearest Island: 24 miles west of Santa Catalina Island.
- Typically the 2.5 – 3 hour trips to Santa Barbara Island are operated April through October, but check their website for the schedule.
- The island is 55 miles from Ventura County and the island trip takes 2.5 to 3 hours. Santa Barbara Island is a volcanic cliff island, like Anacapa.
- LOCATION: The smallest of the Channel Islands, Santa Barbara Island is located 38 miles from Long Beach, Calif.
- The Channel Islands is an eight-island chain lying off the coast from Newport Beach to Santa Barbara. The four northern islands – San Miguel, Santa Rosa
- The rocky shores of Santa Barbara Island also provide resting and breeding areas for California sea lions, harbor seals and northern elephant seals.