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To: nickcarraway
Well back in the day...that break they had there was know as "Killer Dana"...

Way before the harbor...

18 posted on 03/29/2020 2:11:13 PM PDT by Osage Orange (FWIW)
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To: Osage Orange
Richard Dana wrote Two Years Before the Mast
22 posted on 03/29/2020 2:13:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Osage Orange

Actually, I was told by a Dana point local that “killer Dana” is the name of an outcropping of rocks that lie just outside the harbor. Many a ship found the wrong side of Killer Dana in the past. Hence the name.


41 posted on 03/29/2020 2:35:29 PM PDT by Bullish (Covfefe Happens)
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