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from San Francisco Chronicle
The white cliffs rose up in brilliant contrast to the deep blue sea as the catamaran known as the Kitty Kat edged toward shore Friday, full of researchers, history buffs and naturalists reliving the epic voyage by Sir Francis Drake more than four centuries ago. The trip was a rare opportunity to follow in the wake of Capt. Drake and see exactly what the famous mariner saw as he sailed along the Point Reyes coast looking for a safe harbor. "Here it is," shouted Edward Von der Porten, president of the Drake Navigators Guild, extending his arm toward the famous estero as it came into view, lit by a bright sun that moments before had emerged from a shroud of fog. "This is the site where the English first landed in America. What a sight!" Despite years of controversy, the researchers on this boat were not in doubt about where Drake parked the Golden Hind 430 years ago. They were armed with troves of evidence showing that the "faire and good Baye" that Drake described during his 16th century voyage to North America was the very one named after him along the Point Reyes National Seashore.
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from The Spokesman-Review
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