On the western side of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, there are remnants of a lost world. In 1985, Robert Stanley was hiking through the Santa Monicas when he discovered odd formations around the Los Angeles-Ventura county line. He said that gulches looked like sculpted ramparts, stone walls on rocky hills that were never occupied by houses or livestock, and floorlike flat surfaces at the tops of peaks. There was also a huge rock outcropping that appeared as the outline of a human face looking out to the ocean.
Research produced findings that the Chumash Indians had legends of "First People" who lived in the mountains long before they arrived, around 3,000 B.C. The Chumash claimed these people were long gone, but there remained artifacts, including crystalline sculptures of strange animals. The Chumash called the civilization Mu and said that it was wiped out in a flood. This matched the legend of Lemuria, the Lost Continent of the Pacific.
It is believed that at the end of the last Ice Age, the Malibu sea level was about 200 feet lower than today, which would have made the Channel Islands a far-western extension of the Santa Monicas and allowed for a large lowland area where people could have lived, in what is now the coastal shelf of the Pacific. One of North America's oldest human remains were found on Santa Rosa Island, 25 miles west of Malibu. That was a 13,000 year old woman. Rising sea levels from the end of the Ice Age probably wiped out any coastal life, and a tsunami possibly wiped out everything further up into the hills.
Stanley has included professionals in exploring and researching the area, but he has not devulged the locations of the most peculiar features, for fear of their destruction by vandals or curious hunters.
Cache:
Follow the given waypoints and stay in the open sandy areas to get to the cache. A bit of bushwhacking may be necessary, but not too much. It was much easier getting out after I found my way in. Small camo'd container.