SANTA BARBARA ISLAND
Buster Hyder, 81, revisits Santa Barbara Island after 60 years

Tape 1:
LANDING COVE:
Chinese fishing shack, footbridge, wharf, Hyder Lease 1914-1919; pumping water; track & sled; Hyder house; winds; eye-bolt; boom; unloading sheep; horses and mules; trail; Paul Wills; landings; 'woolies'—poultry blown out to sea. 
MIDWAY LANDING:
Uncle Cleve's house; lobster receivers; Margaret Hyder, his wife; Marguerite Blue & her 3 goats; Russian Joe; Phil & Ethel; other work—hauling sheep; fishing; Bob Brooks; Herb Lester; George Hammond; Ed Vail; hogs and calves; sheep from SCRI; sheep fro SNI; Lowell Sumner; Smugglers Cove, SCrI; Indian graves; Graveyard Canyon, SBI; Albacore season—12 boat co-op; Smugglers Cove, SCrI well & orange tree; iceplant & 'cabin stalks' (Coreopsis). 
ARCH POINT: 
collecting gravel, Orcas beached to eat sea lions; rock wall; rabbits and cats; trail to the top; discusses San Miguel Island. 
HIKE TO ISLAND TOP & QUONSET HUT:
discusses San Nicolas Island—drowning of his father, Al Hyder (56); Roy Agee; Coast Guard (Itasca); sinking of Nora II at SNI.
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Tape 2: 
HIKING THE ISLAND:
Rabbits; Environmental Assessment (Bill Ehorn); walking up hillside; Coreopsis (cabin stalks); Arch Point; Dams, Webster Point, guano, cactus, sheep didn't eat Coreopsis; walking to Elephant Seal Cove trail; planting of Eucalyptus trees in "A. H." in 1920; wagon road; hay bailer and rake; growing hay; (hiking to saddle); wooden troughs; cistern at house; airplane landed on SBI; bare spots "bad lands."
OVERLOOKING WEBSTER POINT:
location of dam; sheep corrals; waiving lantern to draw boats in at night; Hyders bummed groceries and traded mutton; hay bailer dropped down sled hill into water; south end cave; never found fresh water; no elephant seals on SBI; elephant seal from Guadalupe Island, MX, 1918; Cleve's lobster cabin made from old fish market lumber from San Pedro; burned a patch a block square in size on Webster Point for potato field—too much guano and salt; loss of hay crop when buyer didn't pay; no sand beaches on SBI; one wing fence to run sheep; hog-tied sheep on sled; boiling and eating sea gull eggs; description of Hyder house tied to deadman by cables to keep it from blowing down.
HIKE TO SIGNAL PEAK:
Foxtails; Brown Pelicans on north side of island; Ravens; reservoirs and cement settling tank; 1986 weather station; water-collecting system of ditches.
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