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This time around, the name took.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2047px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of the Farallons, with waves splashing up on the rocky shore in the foreground.\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k.jpg 2047w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-1020x637.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of the Farallons featured in the 1874 book “Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel in the Evening Land, etc. Illustrated” by J.W. Boddam-Whetham. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11105699446/\">British Library/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A land pillaged\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first people known to live on the islands arrived in 1819. They were Russian fur hunters and members of the Aleut community, who likely were working as enslaved people. They lived on the Southeast Farallon, which is the only island large enough to support humans. They came to the islands to harvest fur seals — the warm pelts were in high demand in Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zackhar Chichinoff was one of the Russians living on the island. His story has been\u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/0/05/Hoover%2C_M_The_Farallon_Islands_1932.pdf\"> recounted in several books\u003c/a> over the years:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A schooner took us down to the islands but we had to cruise around for over a week before we could make a landing. We had a few planks with us and some canvas, and with that we built huts for shelter. The water was very bad also, being taken from hollow places in the rocks where it stood all the year round. We had no fire-arms, the sea lions were killed with clubs or spears. Scurvy broke out among us and in a short time all were sick except myself. All the next winter we passed there in great misery and when the spring came the men were too weak to kill sea-lions, and all we could do was to crawl around the cliffs and gather some sea birds’ eggs and suck them raw.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Despite the difficult living conditions and basic weaponry, settlers managed to kill an estimated 200,000 fur seals on the Farallons over the course of a few years. Captain Benjamin Morrell Jr. visited the island in 1825 and offered this \u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/0/05/Hoover%2C_M_The_Farallon_Islands_1932.pdf\">update in his diary\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many years ago this place was the resort of numerous fur seal but the Russians have made such a havoc among them that there is scarcely a breed left. On this barren rock we found a Russian family and twenty-three Codiaks, or northwest Indians, with their bark canoes. They were employed in taking sea-leopards, sea-horses, and sea-elephants for their skins, oil and flesh … at the time of our visit they had about fifty tons of this beef cured and were expecting the arrival of a Russian vessel to take off the beef and leave them a supply of fresh water, there being none on the island.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By 1834 the fur seal population was decimated. The animals that survived abandoned the island. It would be 140 years before they were seen on the island again; in the 1970s, a few fur seals started to return to the island. The first pup was spotted in 1996, and since then the population has continued to grow. In 2019, Point Blue Conservation Science reported that about 2,000 pups are born on the island each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586.jpeg\" alt=\"More than a dozen fur seals in the foreground, and countless more in the background. A few look directly at the camera. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586-800x555.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586-1020x707.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586-160x111.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fur seal population has rebounded, as seen in this 2011 photo. \u003ccite>(Jim Tietz/PRBO Conservation Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Egg War\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Things were quiet on the islands for a few years, but interest in them picked up again during the Gold Rush. Food scarcity prompted entrepreneurial men to venture out to the Farallons in search of supplies. Because the islands are the largest seabird nesting colony south of Alaska, what they found there were eggs. Lots and lots of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men clean a week's haul of seabird eggs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-800x646.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-1020x824.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-1536x1241.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-1920x1551.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of men clean a week’s haul of seabird eggs. \u003ccite>(Arthur Bolton/California Academy of Sciences )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The eggs they collected turned out to be a hot commodity in protein-starved San Francisco, and the egg hunters quickly found themselves quite rich. An industry sprung up, which Mildred Hoover described in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/0/05/Hoover%2C_M_The_Farallon_Islands_1932.pdf\">1932 book about the Farallons\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There was one essential item in the equipment of the workers – a loose fitting jacket with capacious pockets inside the front. At a given signal, the day’s operations began: every man started on the run for a favored spot among the nests. … When the loose-fronted jackets were full of eggs the men descended the slippery rocks with care to deposit their booty in hidden baskets – hidden because of the Gulls. Accidents were not unknown and to fall while wearing a coat full of eggs delayed the worker at least long enough to wash out the pockets with cold sea water.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the early 1850s, about a half-million eggs were gathered each year. Egg collecting became so lucrative that in 1863 two men were killed in “The Great Egg War.” (We actually did a whole \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872730/the-gold-rush-delicacy-that-started-a-war-eggs\">Bay Curious episode about The Great Egg War\u003c/a> if you’d like to learn more.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as with the fur seals, overharvesting of eggs caused damage to the animal world. The wild murre population plummeted. Eventually, the federal government ruled all commercial eggers off the islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-800x704.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white photo taken on the Farallon Islands. A boat has been pulled onto the top of the rocks by a wooden, crane-like device. \" width=\"800\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-800x704.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-1020x897.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-160x141.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-1536x1352.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-1920x1689.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 1871 image, you can see a crane-like device that was used to haul small boats safely onto the island. A similar technique is used today. \u003ccite>(Eadweard Muybridge photography, courtesy of USCG History)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A lighthouse brings new residents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Navigating the waters around the Farallon islands has always been extremely dangerous. Quick-moving currents can sweep boats onto the rocks, where the Pacific pounds them into oblivion, and during storms waves can get so big they swallow boats whole.[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]There are about 400 ship and airplane wrecks in the Greater Farallones sanctuary. (Airplanes flying low to get under the fog would run into the islands’ rocky peaks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hopes of warding off disaster, a lighthouse was built at the top of Southeast Farallon Island in 1855. It was one of the first lighthouses built on the West Coast. Four lighthouse keepers and their families lived simultaneously on the island to keep the light in operation. They lived in two Victorian duplexes that are still standing today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Nordhoff wrote about their lives in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/8/88/Nordhoff_Farrallon_Islands_Harpers_1874.pdf\">1874 edition of Harper’s Magazine\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The life of the keepers on the Farallon Light is singularly lonely and monotonous … they live in what would seem to a landman like a perpetual storm. The ocean roars in their ears day and night; the boom of the surf is their constant and only music, the wild scream of the sea birds and the howl of the sea lions, the whistle and shriek of the gale, the dull threatening thunder of the vast breakers, are the dreary and desolate sounds which lull them to sleep at night, and assail their ears when they wake.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Life seemed to have improved somewhat by 1932 when Mildred Hoover wrote about the lives of the island’s few residents. She wrote that radio reception on the islands was good, so keepers and their families spent their evenings dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarallonsFromSky.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white 1929 photograph of the Southeast Farallon from the sky. You can see three dwellings, a lighthouse, and several auxiliary buildings. \" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarallonsFromSky.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarallonsFromSky-160x131.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1929 photograph of Southeast Farallon Island from the sky. You can see three dwellings, a lighthouse, and several auxiliary buildings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy US Coast Guard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the lighthouse keepers came another longtime resident: a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">mule named Jack\u003c/a>. He was used to carry fuel and supplies to and from the lighthouse, which was perched at the top of a dangerous climb. Though most lighthouse keepers stayed on the island for \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">one or two years\u003c/a>, Jack called that rock in the middle of the Pacific home for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, the Coast Guard automated the lighthouse, and the keepers moved off the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Scientific and military presence on the island\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">Navy began operating a radio direction finder station\u003c/a> on Southeast Farallon Island, which could be used to locate enemy broadcasters. They constructed dormitories, a power house, two compass houses and several work sheds. Staffing of the station fluctuated, but one report says the total population on the island may have been as high as 70 at some points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Weather Bureau also built a weather station on the island around 1902. Weather data collected on the Farallons was helpful in predicting what mainland residents could expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A sanctuary and laboratory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, the Farallon Islands all are part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/refuge/farallon-islands/about-us\">National Wildlife Refuge\u003c/a>, and the waters surrounding them make up the \u003ca href=\"https://farallones.noaa.gov/\">Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/a>. The island is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1971, they entered into an agreement with \u003ca href=\"https://www.pointblue.org/\">Point Blue Conservation Science\u003c/a> to jointly protect, monitor, conduct research, and manage the islands. The public isn’t allowed on them, but you can take a boat tour through the waters around them — like our colleague\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916632/its-like-youre-on-a-different-planet-in-search-of-whales-and-other-creatures-at-the-mysterious-farallon-islands\"> Izzy Bloom did for a recent story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920251\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-1536x1020.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oceanic Society naturalist Peter Winch (left) points as visitors aboard the Salty Lady view the Farallon Islands. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biologists with Point Blue live in the two Victorian duplexes where lighthouse keepers once stayed. They’ve been conducting many long-term studies on the wild seabirds, seals, whales and sharks that thrive on the islands and in nearby waters. In 2009, KQED’s Quest produced this video about the islands and the research being done there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/WVL_2exHQrg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Whether or not the Farallon Islands are visible from shore is always a good measure of how clear a day we’re having in the San Francisco Bay Area. Situated 27 miles west of the Golden Gate, the cluster of 20 islets is often obscured by fog or marine layer — but on the clearest of days they emerge as a blurry silhouette on the horizon line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The islands are closed to the public because they’re now a wildlife refuge where a dazzling array of birds and other wildlife thrive. But over the years, the islands have served many purposes, and been home to a few brave souls willing to weather the inhospitable conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland resident Ali Moghaddam was enjoying a day in Pacifica with his wife when he first learned about the islands from a placard overlooking the sea. It gave him just enough information to want to know more, so he sent this question to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> team: What is the history of the Farallon Islands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920246\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1298923486-small-800x424.jpg\" alt=\"The sun setting over the Pacific ocean. The Golden Gate Bridge is an silhouette, and on the horizon, the Farallon Islands stick out of the ocean. \" width=\"800\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1298923486-small-800x424.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1298923486-small-1020x541.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1298923486-small-160x85.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1298923486-small-1536x814.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1298923486-small.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Farallon Islands are often obscured by fog or the marine layer, but on the clearest of days, you can see them from land. \u003ccite>(Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The island’s early visitors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first people of the Bay Area were wary of the Farallons. Local tribes called them the Islands of the Dead, and it’s said they never stepped foot on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English explorer, pirate and trader of enslaved people Sir Francis Drake is the first person to leave a record of visiting the islands. He and his men made their way onshore in 1579, where they collected seal meat and eggs. They left after just one day. Drake named them the “Islands of St. James” — a name that didn’t stick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The name that did stick came about 25 years later, when Friar Antonio de la Asunción, sailing on a Spanish expedition, described the string of islands in his diary as “seven farallones close together.” Farallon is Spanish for steep rock or cliff. This time around, the name took.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2047px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920259\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of the Farallons, with waves splashing up on the rocky shore in the foreground.\" width=\"2047\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k.jpg 2047w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-1020x637.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/11105699446_a73ba6de9f_k-1920x1200.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2047px) 100vw, 2047px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of the Farallons featured in the 1874 book “Western Wanderings: A Record of Travel in the Evening Land, etc. Illustrated” by J.W. Boddam-Whetham. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11105699446/\">British Library/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A land pillaged\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first people known to live on the islands arrived in 1819. They were Russian fur hunters and members of the Aleut community, who likely were working as enslaved people. They lived on the Southeast Farallon, which is the only island large enough to support humans. They came to the islands to harvest fur seals — the warm pelts were in high demand in Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zackhar Chichinoff was one of the Russians living on the island. His story has been\u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/0/05/Hoover%2C_M_The_Farallon_Islands_1932.pdf\"> recounted in several books\u003c/a> over the years:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A schooner took us down to the islands but we had to cruise around for over a week before we could make a landing. We had a few planks with us and some canvas, and with that we built huts for shelter. The water was very bad also, being taken from hollow places in the rocks where it stood all the year round. We had no fire-arms, the sea lions were killed with clubs or spears. Scurvy broke out among us and in a short time all were sick except myself. All the next winter we passed there in great misery and when the spring came the men were too weak to kill sea-lions, and all we could do was to crawl around the cliffs and gather some sea birds’ eggs and suck them raw.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Despite the difficult living conditions and basic weaponry, settlers managed to kill an estimated 200,000 fur seals on the Farallons over the course of a few years. Captain Benjamin Morrell Jr. visited the island in 1825 and offered this \u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/0/05/Hoover%2C_M_The_Farallon_Islands_1932.pdf\">update in his diary\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Many years ago this place was the resort of numerous fur seal but the Russians have made such a havoc among them that there is scarcely a breed left. On this barren rock we found a Russian family and twenty-three Codiaks, or northwest Indians, with their bark canoes. They were employed in taking sea-leopards, sea-horses, and sea-elephants for their skins, oil and flesh … at the time of our visit they had about fifty tons of this beef cured and were expecting the arrival of a Russian vessel to take off the beef and leave them a supply of fresh water, there being none on the island.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By 1834 the fur seal population was decimated. The animals that survived abandoned the island. It would be 140 years before they were seen on the island again; in the 1970s, a few fur seals started to return to the island. The first pup was spotted in 1996, and since then the population has continued to grow. In 2019, Point Blue Conservation Science reported that about 2,000 pups are born on the island each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920258\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920258\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586.jpeg\" alt=\"More than a dozen fur seals in the foreground, and countless more in the background. A few look directly at the camera. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586-800x555.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586-1020x707.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/Farallon_Refuge_12294370586-160x111.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fur seal population has rebounded, as seen in this 2011 photo. \u003ccite>(Jim Tietz/PRBO Conservation Science)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Egg War\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Things were quiet on the islands for a few years, but interest in them picked up again during the Gold Rush. Food scarcity prompted entrepreneurial men to venture out to the Farallons in search of supplies. Because the islands are the largest seabird nesting colony south of Alaska, what they found there were eggs. Lots and lots of eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38.jpg\" alt=\"A group of men clean a week's haul of seabird eggs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1616\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-800x646.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-1020x824.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-160x129.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-1536x1241.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/08/egger2_enl-6caea5207a48def8f2179382777a1e494376ff38-1920x1551.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of men clean a week’s haul of seabird eggs. \u003ccite>(Arthur Bolton/California Academy of Sciences )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The eggs they collected turned out to be a hot commodity in protein-starved San Francisco, and the egg hunters quickly found themselves quite rich. An industry sprung up, which Mildred Hoover described in her \u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/0/05/Hoover%2C_M_The_Farallon_Islands_1932.pdf\">1932 book about the Farallons\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>There was one essential item in the equipment of the workers – a loose fitting jacket with capacious pockets inside the front. At a given signal, the day’s operations began: every man started on the run for a favored spot among the nests. … When the loose-fronted jackets were full of eggs the men descended the slippery rocks with care to deposit their booty in hidden baskets – hidden because of the Gulls. Accidents were not unknown and to fall while wearing a coat full of eggs delayed the worker at least long enough to wash out the pockets with cold sea water.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>By the early 1850s, about a half-million eggs were gathered each year. Egg collecting became so lucrative that in 1863 two men were killed in “The Great Egg War.” (We actually did a whole \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872730/the-gold-rush-delicacy-that-started-a-war-eggs\">Bay Curious episode about The Great Egg War\u003c/a> if you’d like to learn more.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as with the fur seals, overharvesting of eggs caused damage to the animal world. The wild murre population plummeted. Eventually, the federal government ruled all commercial eggers off the islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11920247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-800x704.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white photo taken on the Farallon Islands. A boat has been pulled onto the top of the rocks by a wooden, crane-like device. \" width=\"800\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-800x704.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-1020x897.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-160x141.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-1536x1352.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871-1920x1689.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/South_Farallon_Island_landing_1871.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this 1871 image, you can see a crane-like device that was used to haul small boats safely onto the island. A similar technique is used today. \u003ccite>(Eadweard Muybridge photography, courtesy of USCG History)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A lighthouse brings new residents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Navigating the waters around the Farallon islands has always been extremely dangerous. Quick-moving currents can sweep boats onto the rocks, where the Pacific pounds them into oblivion, and during storms waves can get so big they swallow boats whole.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There are about 400 ship and airplane wrecks in the Greater Farallones sanctuary. (Airplanes flying low to get under the fog would run into the islands’ rocky peaks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hopes of warding off disaster, a lighthouse was built at the top of Southeast Farallon Island in 1855. It was one of the first lighthouses built on the West Coast. Four lighthouse keepers and their families lived simultaneously on the island to keep the light in operation. They lived in two Victorian duplexes that are still standing today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Nordhoff wrote about their lives in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.islapedia.com/images/8/88/Nordhoff_Farrallon_Islands_Harpers_1874.pdf\">1874 edition of Harper’s Magazine\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The life of the keepers on the Farallon Light is singularly lonely and monotonous … they live in what would seem to a landman like a perpetual storm. The ocean roars in their ears day and night; the boom of the surf is their constant and only music, the wild scream of the sea birds and the howl of the sea lions, the whistle and shriek of the gale, the dull threatening thunder of the vast breakers, are the dreary and desolate sounds which lull them to sleep at night, and assail their ears when they wake.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Life seemed to have improved somewhat by 1932 when Mildred Hoover wrote about the lives of the island’s few residents. She wrote that radio reception on the islands was good, so keepers and their families spent their evenings dancing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarallonsFromSky.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white 1929 photograph of the Southeast Farallon from the sky. You can see three dwellings, a lighthouse, and several auxiliary buildings. \" width=\"800\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarallonsFromSky.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/FarallonsFromSky-160x131.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 1929 photograph of Southeast Farallon Island from the sky. You can see three dwellings, a lighthouse, and several auxiliary buildings. \u003ccite>(Courtesy US Coast Guard)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the lighthouse keepers came another longtime resident: a \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">mule named Jack\u003c/a>. He was used to carry fuel and supplies to and from the lighthouse, which was perched at the top of a dangerous climb. Though most lighthouse keepers stayed on the island for \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">one or two years\u003c/a>, Jack called that rock in the middle of the Pacific home for 18 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1970s, the Coast Guard automated the lighthouse, and the keepers moved off the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Scientific and military presence on the island\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1900s, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">Navy began operating a radio direction finder station\u003c/a> on Southeast Farallon Island, which could be used to locate enemy broadcasters. They constructed dormitories, a power house, two compass houses and several work sheds. Staffing of the station fluctuated, but one report says the total population on the island may have been as high as 70 at some points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Weather Bureau also built a weather station on the island around 1902. Weather data collected on the Farallons was helpful in predicting what mainland residents could expect.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A sanctuary and laboratory\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Today, the Farallon Islands all are part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fws.gov/refuge/farallon-islands/about-us\">National Wildlife Refuge\u003c/a>, and the waters surrounding them make up the \u003ca href=\"https://farallones.noaa.gov/\">Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/a>. The island is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1971, they entered into an agreement with \u003ca href=\"https://www.pointblue.org/\">Point Blue Conservation Science\u003c/a> to jointly protect, monitor, conduct research, and manage the islands. The public isn’t allowed on them, but you can take a boat tour through the waters around them — like our colleague\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916632/its-like-youre-on-a-different-planet-in-search-of-whales-and-other-creatures-at-the-mysterious-farallon-islands\"> Izzy Bloom did for a recent story\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11920251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11920251\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-800x531.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-1020x677.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/07/GettyImages-1321230164-small-1536x1020.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oceanic Society naturalist Peter Winch (left) points as visitors aboard the Salty Lady view the Farallon Islands. \u003ccite>(Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biologists with Point Blue live in the two Victorian duplexes where lighthouse keepers once stayed. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you look out west from San Francisco, when the fog clears and the light is just right, you might be able to see a cluster of islands jutting out of the ocean, like sharp, misshapen teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farallon Islands, 27 miles west of San Francisco, get their name from the Spanish word farallón, meaning “sea cliff.” The islands are a national wildlife refuge, and home to the largest seabird breeding colony in the contiguous United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916649 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple types of seals and sea lions lie on wet rocks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are five types of seals and sea lions that live on the Farallones: harbor seals, California sea lions, Steller's sea lions, northern fur seals and elephant seals. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from the hundreds of thousands of birds, the islands — and the waters around them — are brimming with a variety of wildlife, including thousands of seals and sea lions, gray and humpback whales, sharks and even orcas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's completely wild and crazy out there,” said Chris Biertuempfel, the California program manager for the Oceanic Society, a nonprofit founded in 1969 by a group of sailors and scientists dedicated to ocean conservation. “It's like you're on a different planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1366px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916887 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"A small cluster of buildings on a rocky island.\" width=\"1366\" height=\"1132\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut.jpeg 1366w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut-800x663.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut-1020x845.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut-160x133.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Farallon Islands are off-limits to the public, but conservation scientists are allowed to stay at the field research station on Southeast Farallon Island. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to taking political action, the organization sought to increase the public's awareness of marine environmental issues, and began leading oceanic expeditions around the world that combined tourism and conservation work. And in 1972, the group started leading \u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanicsociety.org/expedition/farallon-islands-wildlife-expedition/\">whale-watching expeditions\u003c/a> to Southeast Farallon Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Sunday, I joined one of their all-day tours around the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of birds packed together on a rocky cliff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These common murres are sometimes referred to as 'flying penguins' because of their tuxedoed feathers. During peak breeding season in 2021, there were about 250,000 common murres on Southeast Farallon Island. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 70 acres, Southeast Farallon Island is the largest of the Farallones, and the only one inhabited by humans. Conservation scientists, mostly from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have a field research station there, where they stay for months at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's strictly off-limits to everyone else — including us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We cruise into Fisherman’s Bay, and see hundreds of thousands of breeding seabirds coating the face of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not long before you notice the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's definitely very pungent,” said Michael Pierson, an Oceanic Society naturalist. “It has a high level of ammonia for obvious reasons, right? It's a lot of guano … kind of like a cat box that hasn't been changed for a while that maybe has some rotten fish in it as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slender, black-and-white birds are called common murres, Pierson said, and during peak breeding season last year, there were about 250,000 of them, according to the island's researchers, who conduct daily counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They nest in the same exact location every single year,” Pierson said. “So out of 250,000 neighbors, you're going to find the exact same two neighbors to lay your egg [next to] and raise your chick for the season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, because the birds lay them on the rocky cliffs, the eggs are shaped like teardrops, “which is helpful for the birds because it causes the egg to just kind of roll in a circle instead of rolling off the cliff,” Pierson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Fisherman’s Bay, the boat circumnavigates the island. Along the way, we’re treated to a close-up look of a tufted puffin, and I spot a group of seals chasing after our boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s two different kinds of sounds we’re hearing. One of them is the bark and then another one is more of a roar, kind of a belchy roar,” Pierson said. “The belchy roar is coming from the Steller's sea lion, where the barking is coming from the California sea lion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916655 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gray or humpback whale lifts its tail fin out of the water — known as fluking — near the Farallon Islands. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our tour group then heads back toward San Francisco, stopping to check gray whales and a mother humpback whale with her calf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson tells me his favorite part of bringing people out to the Farallones is getting to see them experience it for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1364px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916874 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of orca whales in the water.\" width=\"1364\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut.jpeg 1364w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut-800x520.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut-1020x663.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut-160x104.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1364px) 100vw, 1364px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers on the Oceanic Society’s tour to the Farallones spotted a group of female orcas, and also got a rare sighting of a male orca. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s this mysterious place that they’ve heard of but never been to,” he said. “So when they first get out here and they get to experience it for the first time, it’s always kind of magical just to see the sheer number of birds that are packed in on a hillside, or seals and sea lions that are coating the rocks around the outside. And then you get those really rare sightings where, if you see a great white shark or something like that, then everybody completely loses their minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a chance to see puffins, whales or even sharks for yourself, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanicsociety.org/expedition/farallon-islands-wildlife-expedition/#book-now\">the Oceanic Society leads tours\u003c/a> around the island every weekend from April to November, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916876\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 905px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916876 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"An orca whale facing the camera.\" width=\"905\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut.jpeg 905w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut-800x821.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut-160x164.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An orca spotted off Southeast Farallon Island. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you look out west from San Francisco, when the fog clears and the light is just right, you might be able to see a cluster of islands jutting out of the ocean, like sharp, misshapen teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farallon Islands, 27 miles west of San Francisco, get their name from the Spanish word farallón, meaning “sea cliff.” The islands are a national wildlife refuge, and home to the largest seabird breeding colony in the contiguous United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916649\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916649 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Multiple types of seals and sea lions lie on wet rocks.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56587_IMG_8754-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are five types of seals and sea lions that live on the Farallones: harbor seals, California sea lions, Steller's sea lions, northern fur seals and elephant seals. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aside from the hundreds of thousands of birds, the islands — and the waters around them — are brimming with a variety of wildlife, including thousands of seals and sea lions, gray and humpback whales, sharks and even orcas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's completely wild and crazy out there,” said Chris Biertuempfel, the California program manager for the Oceanic Society, a nonprofit founded in 1969 by a group of sailors and scientists dedicated to ocean conservation. “It's like you're on a different planet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916887\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1366px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916887 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"A small cluster of buildings on a rocky island.\" width=\"1366\" height=\"1132\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut.jpeg 1366w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut-800x663.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut-1020x845.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56590_IMG_8950-qut-160x133.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Farallon Islands are off-limits to the public, but conservation scientists are allowed to stay at the field research station on Southeast Farallon Island. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to taking political action, the organization sought to increase the public's awareness of marine environmental issues, and began leading oceanic expeditions around the world that combined tourism and conservation work. And in 1972, the group started leading \u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanicsociety.org/expedition/farallon-islands-wildlife-expedition/\">whale-watching expeditions\u003c/a> to Southeast Farallon Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Sunday, I joined one of their all-day tours around the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916647\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11916647\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"Thousands of birds packed together on a rocky cliff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56585_IMG_8707-qut.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These common murres are sometimes referred to as 'flying penguins' because of their tuxedoed feathers. During peak breeding season in 2021, there were about 250,000 common murres on Southeast Farallon Island. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At 70 acres, Southeast Farallon Island is the largest of the Farallones, and the only one inhabited by humans. Conservation scientists, mostly from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have a field research station there, where they stay for months at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's strictly off-limits to everyone else — including us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We cruise into Fisherman’s Bay, and see hundreds of thousands of breeding seabirds coating the face of the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not long before you notice the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's definitely very pungent,” said Michael Pierson, an Oceanic Society naturalist. “It has a high level of ammonia for obvious reasons, right? It's a lot of guano … kind of like a cat box that hasn't been changed for a while that maybe has some rotten fish in it as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slender, black-and-white birds are called common murres, Pierson said, and during peak breeding season last year, there were about 250,000 of them, according to the island's researchers, who conduct daily counts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They nest in the same exact location every single year,” Pierson said. “So out of 250,000 neighbors, you're going to find the exact same two neighbors to lay your egg [next to] and raise your chick for the season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, because the birds lay them on the rocky cliffs, the eggs are shaped like teardrops, “which is helpful for the birds because it causes the egg to just kind of roll in a circle instead of rolling off the cliff,” Pierson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Fisherman’s Bay, the boat circumnavigates the island. Along the way, we’re treated to a close-up look of a tufted puffin, and I spot a group of seals chasing after our boat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s two different kinds of sounds we’re hearing. One of them is the bark and then another one is more of a roar, kind of a belchy roar,” Pierson said. “The belchy roar is coming from the Steller's sea lion, where the barking is coming from the California sea lion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916655 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56593_IMG_9779-qut-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gray or humpback whale lifts its tail fin out of the water — known as fluking — near the Farallon Islands. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Our tour group then heads back toward San Francisco, stopping to check gray whales and a mother humpback whale with her calf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pierson tells me his favorite part of bringing people out to the Farallones is getting to see them experience it for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916874\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1364px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916874 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"A group of orca whales in the water.\" width=\"1364\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut.jpeg 1364w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut-800x520.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut-1020x663.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56582_IMG_2935-qut-160x104.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1364px) 100vw, 1364px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Passengers on the Oceanic Society’s tour to the Farallones spotted a group of female orcas, and also got a rare sighting of a male orca. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s this mysterious place that they’ve heard of but never been to,” he said. “So when they first get out here and they get to experience it for the first time, it’s always kind of magical just to see the sheer number of birds that are packed in on a hillside, or seals and sea lions that are coating the rocks around the outside. And then you get those really rare sightings where, if you see a great white shark or something like that, then everybody completely loses their minds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a chance to see puffins, whales or even sharks for yourself, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanicsociety.org/expedition/farallon-islands-wildlife-expedition/#book-now\">the Oceanic Society leads tours\u003c/a> around the island every weekend from April to November, weather permitting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11916876\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 905px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11916876 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"An orca whale facing the camera.\" width=\"905\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut.jpeg 905w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut-800x821.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56580_IMG_2956-qut-160x164.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An orca spotted off Southeast Farallon Island. \u003ccite>(Rhys Watkin/Oceanic Society)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You’ve heard of the California Gold Rush. But that rush spurred another, lesser-known event: the egg rush. The legions of miners who swept into San Francisco in the 1850s hoping to strike gold all had to be fed. And they needed protein to stay strong. But when food shortages hit, wily entrepreneurs looked for eggs in an unlikely source: the Farallon Islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Completely isolated and surrounded by great white sharks and sea lions, “the Farallon Islands are the most forbidding piece of real estate to be found within the city limits of San Francisco,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.garykamiya.com/\">Gary Kamiya\u003c/a>, a journalist and author of “Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco.” “The islands are 28 miles outside the Golden Gate in extremely turbulent, dangerous seas.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these rocky, skeletal islands did have one attractive quality for gold miners: They harbored the largest seabird rookery in the contiguous United States, and therefore were rife with plenty of protein-rich eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting these eggs wasn’t easy. The islands “look like a piece of the moon that fell into the sea,” says Mary Jane Schramm of the \u003ca href=\"https://farallones.noaa.gov/\">Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary\u003c/a>. “There are really no shores where you can land a small boat except with great perils.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1849 and 1854, thousands of fortune hunters flooded into San Francisco from all over the world. Kamiya describes the city as a combination of casinos, campgrounds and brothels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11105699446/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands.jpg\" alt=\"Etching of The South Farallon Island\" width=\"1600\" height=\"998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872770\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-800x499.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-1536x958.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The South Farallon Island \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11105699446/\">The British Library/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Early on, some shrewd forty-niners began to realize that there was more money to be made mining the miners than there was in mining the gold fields,” Kamiya says. Dozens of crude eating joints sprang up around the city, and hundreds of voracious miners would crowd into tents, eating in shifts. “The egg was one of the foodstuffs that was in such short supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva Chrysanthe, an artist and chronicler of the history of the Farallones, describes San Francisco at this time as a “protein-hungry town.” What few chickens there were had been devoured, she says, and people were foraging. “After you wipe out all the bird nests on shore, then you go out to the Farallones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first egg entrepreneur was Doc Robinson, a pharmacist. He and his brother-in-law, Orin, would sail out to the Farallon Islands and haul back dozens of murre eggs, which they would then sell to restaurants and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work was “tough, dirty and dangerous,” says Kamiya. “The murres lay their eggs up on these towering, steep cliffs — higher than Nob Hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though Robinson and his brother-in-law were able to poach $3,000 worth of eggs, they had “no interest in going back. It was a hellish experience,” says Chrysanthe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the idea took hold: Robinson’s egg business kicked off the “egg rush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre.jpg\" alt=\"The common murre (Uria aalge), which was a source of eggs for San Francisco's egg rush. Engraving by John Gould, William Hart, H. C. Richter.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872766\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-1536x1075.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The common murre (Uria aalge), which was a source of eggs for San Francisco’s egg rush. Engraving by John Gould, William Hart, H. C. Richter. \u003ccite>(Dea/G. Dagli Orti/Agostini/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The eggs of the common murre — a penguin-like bird — were the most sought-after, most delectable on the Farallones. Strange, beautiful, blue-speckled and pointy-tipped, they are about twice the size of chicken eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When fried, “the white of the murre egg stays clear and gelatinous. The yolk is deep reddish, and very unappetizing to look at,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.keithhansen.com/\">Keith Hansen\u003c/a>, a bird illustrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1851, six men formed the Pacific Egg Co., which claimed exclusive rights to the islands, says Peter White, author of “The Farallon Islands: Sentinels of the Golden Gate.” In May, when the birds first began to lay, the company would land 10 to 30 men, mostly Italian and Greek, on the Farallones’ talus-filled shores. They came in little rowboats — in itself a test of stamina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamiya is amazed at the derring-do of these men: “They’d send the men up to these sheer guano-stinking cliffs, being attacked by swirling gulls. These were rough-necked guys, waterfront types, climbing up and pushing eggs into their special egg pockets in their egg shirts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/egger.jpg\" alt='\"Scottie the egger\" wearing a shirt typical of egg hunters. The shirts had built-in pouches to make egg collecting easier. ' width=\"600\" height=\"754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872767\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/egger.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/egger-160x201.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Scottie the egger’ wearing a shirt typical of egg hunters. The shirts had built-in pouches to make egg collecting easier. \u003ccite>(Arthur Bolton/California Academy of Sciences )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the egg pickers went in for the first time, they would smash every egg. “That way they could be assured that the next day, when they returned, every egg gathered would be fresh,” White says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eggers starting coming out at about the same time \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">the lighthouse\u003c/a> was being built on the Farallones, says biologist Peter Pyle. “They’ve got hundreds of these ships coming in response to the gold rush, and a lot of them crashed on the Farallones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/education/upload/Lighthouse_intercept.pdf\">Being a lighthouse keeper\u003c/a> on the Farallones was a severe, lonely and harsh duty, says Kamiya. “And then they had to contend with these raucous, aggressive eggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rival eggers would sail out to challenge them. “One man in particular, David Batchelder, just kept showing up with his own bands of roughnecks,” Kamiya says. “The Great Egg Wars of the Farallones took place just a few weeks before the Battle of Gettysburg.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 3, 1863, three boatloads of heavily armed men came to the islands. They even had a cannon with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The guys at the egg company yelled out to them, ‘Land at your peril!’ ” Kamiya says. “Batchelder said, ‘I’ll land! I’ll go through hell!’ Then he and his men spent the night drinking. They got themselves into an aggressive, alcohol-fueled state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the egg company warned them, they opened fire. The first casualty was one of the egg company employees, Edwin Perkins, who died after being shot through the stomach. Five of the boatmen were shot and eventually driven off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the federal government ruled all commercial eggers off of the islands. Any egging after that was done by the lighthouse keepers. “But it was black-market trading, trying to line their pockets with eggs,” says Kamiya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plundering of eggs had caused the murre population to decline year after year, dropping from nearly 400,000 down to 6,000. In the early 1850s, about a half-million eggs were gathered per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1584px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pileofeggs.jpg\" alt=\"Eggs of the common murre collected from the Farallon Islands in the 1880s.\" width=\"1584\" height=\"1178\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872768\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pileofeggs.jpg 1584w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pileofeggs-800x595.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pileofeggs-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pileofeggs-160x119.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Pileofeggs-1536x1142.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1584px) 100vw, 1584px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eggs of the common murre collected from the Farallon Islands in the 1880s. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14728487176/\">Smithsonian Libraries/Flickr\u003c/a> )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For decades, it was said that if you ate any baked goods in San Francisco, you were probably eating murre eggs,” Kamiya says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when chickens finally got established in Petaluma, it ended up doing in the murre egg industry. The Farallones are now used by scientists to observe bird and animal life, and to track the recovery of species on the islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a robust population now, despite the best efforts of the Farallon eggers,” Kamiya says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=The+Gold-Hungry+Forty-Niners+Also+Plundered+Something+Else%3A+Eggs&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between 1849 and 1854, thousands of fortune hunters flooded into San Francisco from all over the world. Kamiya describes the city as a combination of casinos, campgrounds and brothels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872770\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11105699446/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands.jpg\" alt=\"Etching of The South Farallon Island\" width=\"1600\" height=\"998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872770\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-800x499.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-1020x636.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/SouthFarallonIslands-1536x958.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The South Farallon Island \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11105699446/\">The British Library/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Early on, some shrewd forty-niners began to realize that there was more money to be made mining the miners than there was in mining the gold fields,” Kamiya says. Dozens of crude eating joints sprang up around the city, and hundreds of voracious miners would crowd into tents, eating in shifts. “The egg was one of the foodstuffs that was in such short supply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eva Chrysanthe, an artist and chronicler of the history of the Farallones, describes San Francisco at this time as a “protein-hungry town.” What few chickens there were had been devoured, she says, and people were foraging. “After you wipe out all the bird nests on shore, then you go out to the Farallones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first egg entrepreneur was Doc Robinson, a pharmacist. He and his brother-in-law, Orin, would sail out to the Farallon Islands and haul back dozens of murre eggs, which they would then sell to restaurants and grocery stores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work was “tough, dirty and dangerous,” says Kamiya. “The murres lay their eggs up on these towering, steep cliffs — higher than Nob Hill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though Robinson and his brother-in-law were able to poach $3,000 worth of eggs, they had “no interest in going back. It was a hellish experience,” says Chrysanthe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the idea took hold: Robinson’s egg business kicked off the “egg rush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872766\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre.jpg\" alt=\"The common murre (Uria aalge), which was a source of eggs for San Francisco's egg rush. Engraving by John Gould, William Hart, H. C. Richter.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1120\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872766\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre.jpg 1600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-1020x714.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/CommonMurre-1536x1075.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The common murre (Uria aalge), which was a source of eggs for San Francisco’s egg rush. Engraving by John Gould, William Hart, H. C. Richter. \u003ccite>(Dea/G. Dagli Orti/Agostini/Getty Images )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The eggs of the common murre — a penguin-like bird — were the most sought-after, most delectable on the Farallones. Strange, beautiful, blue-speckled and pointy-tipped, they are about twice the size of chicken eggs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When fried, “the white of the murre egg stays clear and gelatinous. The yolk is deep reddish, and very unappetizing to look at,” says \u003ca href=\"https://www.keithhansen.com/\">Keith Hansen\u003c/a>, a bird illustrator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1851, six men formed the Pacific Egg Co., which claimed exclusive rights to the islands, says Peter White, author of “The Farallon Islands: Sentinels of the Golden Gate.” In May, when the birds first began to lay, the company would land 10 to 30 men, mostly Italian and Greek, on the Farallones’ talus-filled shores. They came in little rowboats — in itself a test of stamina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamiya is amazed at the derring-do of these men: “They’d send the men up to these sheer guano-stinking cliffs, being attacked by swirling gulls. These were rough-necked guys, waterfront types, climbing up and pushing eggs into their special egg pockets in their egg shirts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872767\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/egger.jpg\" alt='\"Scottie the egger\" wearing a shirt typical of egg hunters. The shirts had built-in pouches to make egg collecting easier. ' width=\"600\" height=\"754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11872767\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/egger.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/egger-160x201.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Scottie the egger’ wearing a shirt typical of egg hunters. The shirts had built-in pouches to make egg collecting easier. \u003ccite>(Arthur Bolton/California Academy of Sciences )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the egg pickers went in for the first time, they would smash every egg. “That way they could be assured that the next day, when they returned, every egg gathered would be fresh,” White says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eggers starting coming out at about the same time \u003ca href=\"https://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=100\">the lighthouse\u003c/a> was being built on the Farallones, says biologist Peter Pyle. “They’ve got hundreds of these ships coming in response to the gold rush, and a lot of them crashed on the Farallones.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/education/upload/Lighthouse_intercept.pdf\">Being a lighthouse keeper\u003c/a> on the Farallones was a severe, lonely and harsh duty, says Kamiya. “And then they had to contend with these raucous, aggressive eggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rival eggers would sail out to challenge them. “One man in particular, David Batchelder, just kept showing up with his own bands of roughnecks,” Kamiya says. “The Great Egg Wars of the Farallones took place just a few weeks before the Battle of Gettysburg.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 3, 1863, three boatloads of heavily armed men came to the islands. They even had a cannon with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The guys at the egg company yelled out to them, ‘Land at your peril!’ ” Kamiya says. “Batchelder said, ‘I’ll land! I’ll go through hell!’ Then he and his men spent the night drinking. They got themselves into an aggressive, alcohol-fueled state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the egg company warned them, they opened fire. The first casualty was one of the egg company employees, Edwin Perkins, who died after being shot through the stomach. Five of the boatmen were shot and eventually driven off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the federal government ruled all commercial eggers off of the islands. Any egging after that was done by the lighthouse keepers. “But it was black-market trading, trying to line their pockets with eggs,” says Kamiya.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plundering of eggs had caused the murre population to decline year after year, dropping from nearly 400,000 down to 6,000. 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