Please introduce yourself. I am Jonathan White, and I live up on Orcas Island, which is part of the

San Juan Islands north of Seattle. And I'm a writer and a conservationist, marine conservationist,

and a sailor and a surfer. And I'm working on my third book right now that has to do with the

Sea of Cortez.

When did you get interested in the Wikita?

Well, it really happened around this book project.

You might know of the book called The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts.

Have you seen that book at all?

Yeah.

You might want to look at it at some point.

It's a wonderful book that is about an expedition that they took down to the Sea of Cortez or the Gulf of California in 1940. They did that and then they wrote

this book about it, The Log from the Sea of Cortez. And it's a great book about friendship and about the

ocean, about fishing. And it was really an intertidal trip where they went to all 27 different

intertidal sites

and looked at all the little creatures in the intertidal zone

during low tide.

And so anyway, I got interested in that book,

and it turns out that the boat that they chartered

for that trip was lost after that trip and then found

again and sunk about four times.

And then finally it was bought by somebody who really had read the log from the Sea of Cortez

and loved it and wanted to restore the boat.

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