Two Harbors, Catalina Island

We reached Catalina just before sunset and tied up to a mooring ball just 3 rows back from the beach. Two Harbors is a great vacation destination for boaters, one pier, one restaurant, one bar and a general store. It reminds me of some of the places you can visit in the BVI's, but its on the west coast. Next to Avalon, its the most popular yacht destination on the west coast and for good reasons.

The water around Catalina is very clear and there are plenty of fish to catch, you start with bread bait, catch a few mackerel, chop them up for bait and then start reeling in lunch. Within a few hours we had enough sea bass to feed all of us. We hoped to catch some halibut, but no luck this time.

View from the hammock....

You can only get ashore by dinghy (or swim). By the end of the week, the kids mastered starting the outboard and could get ashore by themselves to get ice-cream etc.

Two harbors bay

I intended to scuba dive and windsurf here, but I never managed to muster the energy. Its really a pathetic
excuse but you can really unwind here and its hard to get anything done. I did go snorkeling on the last day and later that day Sophie tried it for the first time, after a initial hesitation she really got into it and I literally had to fish her out of the water.

Cat Harbor on the west side of the Isthmus