C32 - Wednesday, April 11, 1984 - North Shore News

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Catalina offers escape from tourist traps

ONCE A HAVEN for smugeylers, bootleggers and The tstand’s many valleys The main town, Avalon, eve -~ a 12 storey high cir The hilly Skyline Drive
pirates, today Catalina Island off the California ate swathed with luxurious which has a population of cular Moorish-style building Tour takes visitors through
coast lures visitors who seek a contrast to the ever [lage and the craggy higher just overtwo thousand, looks with a spectacular red tiled the heart of the 66 miles of
“.: : . ; ; slopes are blanketed th ‘ : . : -
popular Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm and p ¢ anketed wi like a resort one would expect root. Today this fortress-like

open wilderness. The hillsides

, ; chaparrel Surrounding — to find in the Mediterranean Casino houses a movie are dotted with clusters of

Universal Studios. waters abound with a variety Spanking vachts bob aimless. — theatre, a ballroom and in- yellow flowering prickly pear

— are actually the tops. ot of interesting fish including ly in the crescent-shaped har- — teresting museum. cacth each vying for. ter-

submerged “mountains and  SWOrdfish, tuna, rock bass, bor against a backdrop of In Avalon the main street ritorial nights in the sun dren
because they are separated barracuda, albacore and terraced houses snuggled into — tollows the sweep of the san ched cletts

Just a two hour boat ride trom the mainland by water, marlin Fr route to the the steep dry hillside dy beach and widens into a Visitors may be surprised

from busthng Los Angeles, many of their wild plants are Island. itis not uncommon to central plaza featuring an oc to see buftalo herds roaming

Santa Catalina is one of the = difterent from those found POL 4a thlying fish taxi On a promontory, an tagonal fountain decorated treely Now numbering 400,

eight Channel Islands) They on the mainland alongside the boat unusual landmark catches the with colortul, Spanish tiles they were brought bo

The theme 1s Spanish. Strum. Catahna Island by a tilm

ming troubadours and crew in 1924 for the movie

senroritas bedecked in “The Vanishing American”

Spangled skirts create a The tilm crew indeed sanish

festive scene

ed, but the buttalo remained

Visitors can browse Another strange imhabitant

through fascinating bout are Wild boats orpinally im
gues anid valleries to examine ported to control the rat
displays of cxotie shellware tlesnake population  bonter
and samptie the iwecal salt tunately the pigs titerally
water tatty turned up ther noses at thers

The four tour vistt allowed potential repttlean diet. sete
5 eas dav steamer passengers com day both pigs and rattle
fortably gives vesitors enough Snakes roam the mountains
time tor shopping lunch and Other interesting inland
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short tours operating daily turesque Pwo Hattbours
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