Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Catalina Island by Land

We took an inland bus tour of the island. Our bus driver was 6 days on the job, but full of gossip. Ashley was hanging onto me for dear life as we straddled the cliff side winding roads as our driver was still getting a feel for the roads and bus. 

On the bus
We had some spectacular views.



 A film crew brought over some male buffalo to shoot a movie, but they ran out of money and abandoned the buffalo. The Island ended up bringing over some females and now they have a free roaming herd.

They stopped at the airport Mr. Wrigley built by filling in 20,000 truckloads of dirt in between 2 mountains. This is a map of Catalina.
At the airport shop, you could buy Buffalo tacos, hot dogs, or burgers. Ashley didn't want anything to eat, only jewelry.
After a lot of driving we found "where the buffalo roam"

The tour guide couldn't see Barbara Streisand's or Tiger Wood's yacht.
The new bus driver let us get out, "I wouldn't recommend it, but you can go pet it" he said. 
10 feet was as close as we got.
I spotted the fox. Can you?
On the bus, Ashley snuggling up close, hanging on for dear life...lucky me
We saw Buffalo/bison, a deer, and a fox. Pretty cool.

2 comments:

Mason Manor said...

That was the scariest bus ride! Good thing we didn't die!! :)

Ron said...

That looked like another fun trip!