: About Me

Charlie and the Scout Santa Marcella is a rugged little island thirty five miles off California's central coast. The northern end is made inaccessible by vertical cliffs two hundred high thrusting up from the sea. They form the edge of rugged mountains that rise to three thousand feet and then gradually descend for twenty miles to grassy plains and sandy beaches in the south. There is a cattle ranch on the leeward side of the southern end and a transmitter tower on ocean side to the north. The company I work for owns the tower and keeps an old Ford Scout at the ranch for service trips to t...