Thousand Oaks photographer and hiker, Ben Pankratz sent this in to share: “About ten million years ago, these seashells were under the Pacific Ocean on the Pacific Plate. That is the part of the earth’s crust which has lifted against the North American Plate, creating the Santa Monica Mountains. You can now see these seashell fossils [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Satwiwa'
Local Trail has Seashell Fossils
April 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment · California, Conejo Valley, History, Newbury Park, Outdoors, Ventura County
Tags: Conejo Valley·Newbury Park·Satwiwa·SMMNRA·Thousand Oaks
The Spiritual Center of the Conejo Valley
July 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Green, Meditations, Newbury Park, Outdoors
Mount Boney, to me, is the spiritual center of the Conejo Valley. It was not until I hiked around Satwiwa Rancho Sierra, part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA) in Newbury Park, that I felt a really deep connection to the land in the valley. I hiked there, shortly after I moved [...]
An Oak Tree on a Morning Walk
August 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Conejo Valley, Green
We are so blessed with magnificent oak trees in the Conejo Valley, that an alternate name for where we live could be Oak Valley. Or, we could use the Latin name for oaks, which is Quercus, except that doesn’t have as good a sound to it as conejo. About five years ago, I took a [...]
Tags: Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area·Satwiwa
