. To California and back; . rated among lovers of bathing, boating,and fishing. SANTA CATALINA ISLAND. Twenty miles off the coast it rises, likeCapri, from the sea, a many-peaked mountain-cap, varying in width from half a mile to ninemiles, and more than twenty long. Its boldcliff shores are broken by occasional pocketsrimmed by a semicircular beach of sand. Themost famous of these is Avalon, quite the mostfrequented camping ground of Southern Cali-fornia. In midsummer its two hotels are filledto overflowing, and in the hundreds of tentsclustered by the waters edge thousands ofpleasure-seekers
. To California and back; . rated among lovers of bathing, boating,and fishing. SANTA CATALINA ISLAND. Twenty miles off the coast it rises, likeCapri, from the sea, a many-peaked mountain-cap, varying in width from half a mile to ninemiles, and more than twenty long. Its boldcliff shores are broken by occasional pocketsrimmed by a semicircular beach of sand. Themost famous of these is Avalon, quite the mostfrequented camping ground of Southern Cali-fornia. In midsummer its two hotels are filledto overflowing, and in the hundreds of tentsclustered by the waters edge thousands ofpleasure-seekers are gathered in the height ofthe season. Summer is the period of SantaCatalinas greatest animation, for then, as inother lands, comes vacation time. But there iseven less variation of season than on the main-land, and the nights are soft and alluring,because the seaward-blowing mountain air isrobbed of all its chill in passing over the equa-ble waters. Here after nightfall verandasand the beach are still thronged. The tiny.
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