Catalina Tiles
together but apart, waiting for the tour bus.
detail, Bronze door, Wrigley Memorial
The "Casino". Actually a movie theatre and ballroom, built in 1928.
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Vancouver Island artist/writer Alison Watt's journal, as she and her husband Kim Waterman, sail out of their lives for a year on their boat, Circadia.
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- Alison Watt
- I am an artist and writer. I usually work from my home and studio on Protection Island (where I also teach painting). This year (Sept. 08-summer 09) I'm trying to keep the artist's life afloat as my husband and I take time out to sail in the Pacific.
Trip Bird List
- Crimson-backed Tanager
- Red-vented Bulbul
- Tahiti Swiftlet
- Grey-green Fruit-dove
- Imperial Pigeon
- Audubon's Shearwater
- Tuomotu Reed-warbler
- Blue Lorikeet
- Atoll Fruit Dove
- Christmas Shearwater
- Spectacled Tern
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Great Crested Tern
- Marquesan Swiftlet
- White-capped Fruit Dove
- Little White Tern
- Chestnut-breasted Munia
- Red-browed Firetail
- Common Myna
- Zebra Dove
- Nightingale Reed Warbler
- Wandering Tattler
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Brown Noddy
- Polynesian Storm Petrel
- Juan Fernandez Petrel
- Sooty Shearwater
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Buller's Shearwater
- Leach's Storm Petrel
- Laysan Albatross
- White-tailed morph of Red-footed Booby
- Red-footed Booby
- Blue-footed Booby
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Phainopepla
- Western Scrub Jay
- Gila Woodpecker
- Greater Roadrunner
- House Wren
- Hooded Oriole
- Northern Cardinal
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- American Oystercatcher
- Canyon Wren
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Costa's Hummingbird
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Yellow-footed Gull
- Forster's Tern
- Brown Booby
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Rhinoceros Auklet
- Little Blue Heron
- White Ibis
- Magnificent Frigatebird
- Yellowlegs (sp.?)
- Semi-palmated Plover
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Black-vented Shearwater
- Cassin's Auklet
- Burrowing Owl
- California Towhee
- Western Meadowlark
- Loggerhead Shrike
- Sage Sparrow
- Northern Harrier
- Pacific Loon
- Black Oystercatcher
- Sanderling
- Long-billed Curlew
- Whimbrel
- Ruddy Duck
- Surf Scoter
- Brant
- Allen's Hummingbird
- Western Meadowlark
- American Kestrel
- (Channel Islands) House Finch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Say's Phoebe
- (San Clemente) Spotted Towhee
- Red-breasted Nuthatch
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Acorn Woodpecker
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- (Dusky) Orange-crowned Warbler
- California Quail
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Western Kingbird
- House Finch
- Anna's Hummingbird
- Horned Grebe
- Western Scrub Jay
- California Thrasher
- Mockingbird
- European Starling
- Brewer's Blackbird
- Golden Eagle
- Western Sandpiper
- Osprey
- Belted Kingfisher
- Western Grebe
- Mallard
- Black Phoebe
- European House Finch
- American Crow
- Brandt's Cormorant
- Double-crested Cormorant
- Common Loon
- Willet
- Heerman's Gull
- Elegant Tern
- Royal Tern
- Snowy Egret
- Great Egret
- Green Heron
- Little Blue Heron
- Great Blue Heron
- Black-crowned Night Heron
- Marbled Godwit
- Common Murre
- Forster's Tern
- Western Gull
- Herring Gull
- Parasitic Jaeger
- Pomerine Jaeger
- Pink-footed Shearwater
- Storm Petrel (sp?)
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Black-footed Albatross
- Sooty Shearwater
- Brown Pelican
- Imperial Pigeon
- Audubon's Shearwater
- Tuomotu Reed-warbler
- Blue Lorikeet
- Atoll Fruit Dove
- Christmas Shearwater
- Spectacled Tern
- Wedge-tailed Shearwater
- Great Crested Tern
- Marquesan Swiftlet
- White-capped Fruit Dove
- Little White Tern
- Chestnut-breasted Munia
- Red-browed Firetail
- Common Myna
- Zebra Dove
- Nightingale Reed Warbler
- Wandering Tattler
- Pacific Reef Heron
- Brown Noddy
- Polynesian Storm Petrel
- Juan Fernandez Petrel
- Sooty Shearwater
- White-tailed Tropicbird
- Buller's Shearwater
- Leach's Storm Petrel
- Laysan Albatross
- White-tailed morph of Red-footed Booby
- Red-footed Booby
- Blue-footed Booby
- Green-tailed Towhee
- Phainopepla
- Western Scrub Jay
- Gila Woodpecker
- Greater Roadrunner
- House Wren
- Hooded Oriole
- Northern Cardinal
- Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
- American Oystercatcher
- Canyon Wren
- Ash-throated Flycatcher
- Costa's Hummingbird
- Ladder-backed Woodpecker
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Black-throated Sparrow
- Yellow-footed Gull
Trip Marine Mammal List
- Bottle-nosed Dolphin
- Short-beaked Common Dolphin
- Gray Whale
- Northern Right Whale Dolphin
- Steller's Sea Lion
- California Sea Lion
- Humpback Whale
- Harbour Porpoise
- Pacific White-sided Dolphin
5 comments:
Oh my! Did you read my post this morning about the onset of rain and darkness and winter and decide you had to cheer me up with pictures of gorgeous sunny places full of delightful colour? Not sure it's working as I'm still stuck here in the rain (and you know how charming it is to bike that muddy road to the ferry while rain soaks through no matter what hat . . .). but I'm happy for you, really!
I imagine Catalina as the island of the mystical island Avalon. My In-laws live in San Pedro and a clear day you can see Catalina from their house and some days fog hides it from view.
Thank you for the lovely up close images of Catalina to balance my inner images of the 22 mile across the sea view. Really beautiful.
.....will work for food! rain , rain go away...hope Kim and you are having a wonderfully dry time. We are keeping the wet coast tradition alive and well up here!
materfamilias and fish eggs, as that old Jesse Winchester song says, "if you are never warm girl, who's gonna keep you warm? you'll take the sun for granted, you'll run from every storm."
But also, still trying to put a bright spin on the west coast winters, it's common instruction in painting, that colour is most effective when it is surrounded by neutrals, greys, browns, darks.
I wonder what happens to all the seasonal effective disorder normal people should have this time of year. That can't be good.
La belette rouge
sounds like a little field trip out of LA is in order. Bring a 1920's novel, something cheesy like "The Sheik". (yes, too bad we weren't closer, thanks for the offer of theoretical girl time).
forgot to ask, is this the "Santa Catalina" of "26 Miles Across the Sea / Santa Catalina is Waiting for Me" . . .ever since you posted this, those lyrics have been singing, with the mellifluous 50s-60s harmonies backing them up, through the head -- and just after I'd finally got the Lightfoot cleared out!
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