It's amazing to see how many boats can be packed into a small harbor. Avalon Harbor, on the channel side of Santa Catalina Island is packed with boats - hundreds of them - each on a mooring ball that anchors both bow and stern in place to keep the boats from swinging about. That allows them to increase the density of boats. I imagine them reducing the separation between boats until boats start crashing and then pull them back a skosh. Add to that the distractions of swimmers, kayakers and naked Nubian paddle boarders and you'll get a sense of the level of moorage anxiety this afternoon.
After tying up, settling in, assembling the biminy, and taking a break for happy hour, we called the shore boat to give us a lift to… well, shore. Avalon is different than I remember it. Granted it's been twenty-five years since I tied up here on an off-shore training cruise with Mahina Expeditions. I guess I just don't remember it being so much like Whistler Village. Well, whatever. Roll with it.
We lined up some hiking for tomorrow, and getting off the beaten track for some walking this afternoon, we found a small seafood restaurant a block or two off the main drag where restaurants looked over-priced. We found showers and provisions as well, so it turned into a fairly productive afternoon.
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