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What a wild convergence. By the way, the obituary for "Constance Crowley Bowles Hart Peabody" says, "With her family, she supported the Crowley Maritime Corp.’s donation of the Marin Islands, which the company owned, to the Trust for Public Lands and later the National Park Service. The islands are now a bird sanctuary." I guess they didn't get that $4.3M after all back in 1984.

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yeah...guess no buyers. if they had waited for the tech book to come in the 1990s maybe they would have been more successful?

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you mean the "tech boom" i think -- yeah, probably would have some takers. i wonder what happened to the caretaker on the Ark.

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ha. yes, boom! yeah he'd be an interesting person to talk to.

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His name was Botch! “The dock used to have a garage with a hoist to lift the island caretakers boat completely out of the water. There was also a small workshop right at the bottom of the stairs. This current dock was put in for the bird observers who oversee the island to use,” said Samuel Moore, a ferry captain at Golden Gate Ferry who now lives in San Rafael. Put Merriam, of San Rafael, was original owner Thomas Crowley’s godson and says he spent a lot of time on the islands. He said “Tom Crowley was also the only one that could find his way anywhere on San Francisco Bay in the dense fog… By only listening to the fog horns!” Merriam also added, “We used to go out there every Wednesday night when I was young… The caretaker’s name was Botch.” -- https://www.thomashenthorne.com/marin-islands/

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wow, there's a vintage helicopter news report and the old cowboy pilot says, "There's a caretaker ark there that they used to have floating - not crap games - poker games on, and Randolph Hearst used to own it." haha!

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yeah, isn't it great? shoulda embedded it!

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