Showing posts with label Catalina Island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Catalina Island. Show all posts

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.

Monday, July 14, 2014

Catalina Island by Sea

The next day on our trip without the kids (Thanks Grandma & Grandpa), we went to Catalina Island. We went to Catalina 10 years ago on part of our honeymoon as well.

On our ferry ride to Catalina, we drove right through a giant pod of dolphins. We hope they were alright.


We took a submarine ride on the Nautilus.




The fish know its dinner time, so they swim right up to the submarine.
We launched fish food torpedoes




I won a Sub King sticker for spotting a specific fish first.



Ashley really liked watching all the fish
Towards the end of the ride, we came up top side. 
Afterwards we shared some fish, scallops, clams, and shrimp with "chips". Yummy!