Santa Catalina Island
To be alive, to breath, to realize that you are part of a magnificent world, a world of beauty and change and challenge. Those are some of the feelings this desertic islands awake in me.
What can be more thrilling than opening your eyes, and watching a bright full moon over a mountain range where rocks haven’t yet lost their original colors; there isn’t much vegetation covering up their harsh and amazing textures, from lava flows to granite, from marine sediments to alluvial fans. Catalina Island rises in front of Sea Voyager, the favorite of many, and becoming my favorite as well.
There is a point that looks like an elephant, next to our landing beach. Barrel cacti, like nowhere else in the world, cover the slopes of the area, together with the always impressive Cardons. Long hikers got to the top of a hill; from there they saw the other side of Santa Catalina, and again, the Vermillion sea.
After walking there was the option of deep water snorkeling around Elephant rock, while scuba divers explored a near by area. The afternoon found us at Tursiops bay, a place to kayak, to swim and to snorkel. We also had the banana boat, the favorite activity of our younger guests.
At night Venus joined Saturn and the Moon to celebrate another fantastic day in the Gulf of California.
To be alive, to breath, to realize that you are part of a magnificent world, a world of beauty and change and challenge. Those are some of the feelings this desertic islands awake in me.
What can be more thrilling than opening your eyes, and watching a bright full moon over a mountain range where rocks haven’t yet lost their original colors; there isn’t much vegetation covering up their harsh and amazing textures, from lava flows to granite, from marine sediments to alluvial fans. Catalina Island rises in front of Sea Voyager, the favorite of many, and becoming my favorite as well.
There is a point that looks like an elephant, next to our landing beach. Barrel cacti, like nowhere else in the world, cover the slopes of the area, together with the always impressive Cardons. Long hikers got to the top of a hill; from there they saw the other side of Santa Catalina, and again, the Vermillion sea.
After walking there was the option of deep water snorkeling around Elephant rock, while scuba divers explored a near by area. The afternoon found us at Tursiops bay, a place to kayak, to swim and to snorkel. We also had the banana boat, the favorite activity of our younger guests.
At night Venus joined Saturn and the Moon to celebrate another fantastic day in the Gulf of California.
