Santa Catalina Island So. California

We spent from March 12th to March19th exploring the Island of Santa Catalina. The weather was decent for this early in the year. Seas were calm, there was little to no wind and the temperature was in the high 60"s to low 70's with full sunshine. We moored out first in Avalon, which is simply beautiful. While we were walking the beach walk, we heard someone calling Alexus' name. We ran into Darcy and Bob who were there on their beautiful 55 Nordhavn "Enterprise". We had a great time with them visiting both boats for “Happy Hour”. We walked all over the island and took a couple of the tours of the local area and one up to the airport on Catalina. While we were there, I caught Mackerel, Whitefish and a small halibut we had to release.

After spending about five days in Avalon, we made our way to the Isthmus Cove. We were one of about four boats in a cove that can handle 100+ boats. We took the dinghy to shore and walked about ¾ of a mile over to Cat Harbor on the ocean facing side. It was a little blustery on the ocean side. We spent two days at Isthmus Cove and then moved to Emerald Cove.

In Emerald Cove we were the only boat. The water was unbelievably clear. From the boat I saw the orange Garibaldi, full size Halibut, a huge Eagle Ray, a couple of Sting Rays and a few Sand Bass. Because the water was so clear and the weather decent, Alexus put on her wet suit and did some snorkeling in and around the kelp forest. I followed her in the dinghy just to make me feel better and not worry about her. She was more than fine as she is a Master Scuba Diver and Divemaster.

We knew the weather was going to turn for the worse and we did not want to be stuck on Catalina, so we left on March 20^th to head for Marina Del Rey and the California Yacht Club. We had stayed with the Club on our way south and wanted to stay with them again on our way back north.