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Catalina's interior

3 Mar 2017
Catalina’s interior offers beautiful vistas Many Catalina Island visitors never find out for themselves what lies beyond the confines of Avalon. Surrounded by high hills and the Pacific, the quaint village is often the only picture of Santa Catalina that some visitors ever see. Avalon,...
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Avalon on New Year's Eve

3 Mar 2017
The Catalina Casino hosts an annual New Year’s Eve gala New Year’s Eve in Catalina Island’s Casino Ballroom is one of the biggest parties in Southern California. The Casino is one of the most iconic buildings in the country and its ballroom is a dramatic...
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Catalina Island design

3 Mar 2017
Catalina Island’s serpentine wall owes its existence to Otis Shepard and his wife Dorothy Catalina Island owes its present reality to many people: the Banning Brothers and the Wrigley family in particular were instrumental in shaping the future of the island and crafting Avalon into...
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Catalina Island Bison

3 Mar 2017
Photo courtesy of Catalina Island Conservancy. For nearly a century, Catalina Island’s rolling hills and oak-dotted grasslands have been home to one of North America’s most iconic species: American Bison. A dozen or so of these large herbivores were brought to the island in the...
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Catalina Island drought

3 Mar 2017
A series of mid-December Pacific storms have brought a welcome drink to drought-parched Catalina Island. Familiar browns and golds have begun a transformation into a verdant green. That lush green will blanket the Santa Catalina hills for months, especially if Mother Nature cooperates with more...
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