Someone named Mike Higgins claims to have hiked the island in 1995 and restrung the flagpole http://www.kayaker.net/sfbay.... I wonder if it's the same flagpole that was raised in the 1850s by Selim Woodworth. I also wonder who owns it now. Articles from May 2008 list it as being on sale for $22M but the realtor handling it no longer lists it. - Sanjeev Singh