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Article: Catalina unplugged.(travel to Santa Catalina Island, CA)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1995
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On a deserted Catalina cove, my friend Kim and I are perched on a blue granite rock laughing out siren songs to distant sailboats, our handcrafted seaweed dresses undulating with each chilly splash of a wave. Around us, jagged escarpments spill down into two canyons that frame a barren pebble-and-sand beach: the semideserted campground of Parsons' Landing, 20 miles northwest of Avalon. Minus the Indians and the sand castles we've built (and with the addition of an ungraceful row of outhouses), the cove looks much as it did when explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrilhio sailed up in 1542 and christened the island after the now decanonized saint of philosophers and scholars.
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