sentences:  Nial O’Malley Keyes, in his book "Blubber Ship", reported large numbers of whales were caught within a mile of Malibu (in or before 1934), a reference to the Point Dume operation.Up until the 1940s, Point Dume was a windblown, treeless bluff covered by native chaparral.Post-World War II the bluff became slowly settled by independent-minded people, who planted trees and other non-native flora among their single-family homesteads.