DANA POINT MARINA NOW HAS A FERRY DIRECT TO
CATALINA ISLAND

John D. Bowler

Finally we are making sense! I'm talking about the opening of Catalina Express from Dana Point Marina to Catalina Island. This promises to be the greatest thing that happened in Dana Point since sliced bread, return of Coca Cola Classic, and Hennessey's Tavern, not to mention the bringing back of Prime Rib to Turk's Monday menus. Let me tell you, for just 360 thin dimes, less for seniors, you can now take an hour and forty-five minute boat trip, sitting airplane seat style with plenty of leg room, to spend a day on Catalina Island. You can visit shops like the Sand Box, cutest kids clothes anywhere, roam the elegant Casino, and beautiful Descanso Beach, the only place in California you can have a drink served at the sand!

At the nerve center of the City you can hear old fashioned politics that will bring tears of nostalgia to your eyes while getting a real hair cut at Lolo's Barber Shop, topped off with a vibrating neck and shoulder massage for just seven bucks, and peruse the sports memorabilia. Catalina teens sport final-tops! You can take a glass-bottom boat, or para-sail. Have a real Buffalo Burger at the pier for lunch. Take an inland tour and see the history or golf nine holes in paradise. At days end, eat the best Italian food at Prego's for dinner, and return on the late boat. On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it leaves Avalon at 7 PM. Isn't that romantic? You betcha! We got married there in 1986!

SOURCE: Letter to the Editor from John D. Bowler, Dana Point News, 2 July, 1998. This letter is reproduced as information on the Dana Point Marina to Catalina Island ferry, and is not a paid advertisement; opinions expressed are solely those of the author. Reprinted in the public interest.

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