Doug McConnell’s Open Road site has a bunch of his Bay Area Backroads programs archived. I watched one a minute ago — on a visit to the Farallon Islands — that had me thinking how great it’d be to hike there.

Nobody can: it’s a national marine sanctuary. Doug and his crew had to get a special permit to see the islands up close. Only a few scientists live there now, studying the animal life. That’d be the job of a lifetime (till the boredom of living almost 30 miles out in the open ocean set in).

Of course if you’re really adventurous, there’s always shark diving.

Open Road’s blog is here.