The America's National Parks Podcast is sponsored by L. L. L. Bine has partnered with the National Park Foundation to help you find your happy place.

And with more than 400 national parks,

there's a good chance you'll find one close to home.

Discover your perfect day in a park

at find your Park.com. If you're a regular listener of this podcast or our sister podcast RV Miles,

you know Abigail and I are big fans of park videos.

You know the short films you watch in the visitor center designed to give you an overview of the site you're visiting.

Watching a park video is one of the first things we do as a family before exploring a park,

and I love the way it sets up what you're going to see as you explore, and why it's protected.

In fact, several of our past episodes have featured Park films

or have come about because of a story featured in a film. This episode included.

I'm Jason Epperson and today on the America's National Parks podcast Channel Islands

National Park and the original 1982 Park film, Treasures of the Sea. Now in retirement this film is replaced in 2011

with the currently running film featuring narration by Kevin Kostner. But

nothing beats the nostalgia of the original.

Islands.

For as long as man has looked to the sea they have beckoned. As he struggled to comprehend his larger world, islands in their isolated simplicity, would continue to fascinate him.

Whether wrapped in cloaks of mist or etched in crystal clarity, we've always yearned to go and to know them.

Off the California coast where it bends toward the west are five of the eight channel islands. Within a protective boundary and as a group they comprise the Channel Islands National Park,

a place waiting to be shared.

A place to be shared.

A place to be protected.

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