Point Dume Natural Preserve
Rocky coastal headland and preserve with tide pools, wildflowers and prime gray whale viewing above the bluffs.
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This guide to Point Dume Natural Preserve in Malibu opens in 1793, when British naval captain George Vancouver charted this headland and named it for a Franciscan priest, Father Francisco Dumetz, a name a mapmaker later misspelled into Point Dume. It traces the bluff's use by the Chumash people as sacred ground, and its grim turn in the 1930s, when a whaling ship anchored offshore for months while crews dragged gray whales ashore to be stripped of blubber. The misspelling on the sign has never been corrected.
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