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And now, here it is, the movie. This short film is from our recent trip to Catalina Island. Enjoy. The video is HD, so I recommend that you click the corner to expand to full screen.

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After about a ten year hiatus from the annual Catalina Island trips that my family used to take, my dad, sister and I finally reunited on the island and found it just about the way we left it.  Catalina is still beautiful, smells just the same, and is full of some cool wildlife.  I even [...]

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That’s Santa Barbara Island. Just crawling with them. There is a very healthy seal and sea lion population there. While visiting, I caught some shots of the breading ground (it’s amazing how far up the island they go) and a few clans with pups. It’s really funny to be in a place where pinnipeds dominate. [...]

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Typically, you’ll see a few common dolphin (or porpoise) if you’re at sea off the California coast for a bit. I even saw a few in La Jolla just yesterday. They’re beautiful and fun to see, and I’m always trying to get a good shot of one jumping out of the water. Recently though, I [...]

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I’ve never known seagulls to migrate, and I recall there being quite a few at the Channel Islands in the past, so I’m a bit confused why all I could find on this recent trip to Catalina and Santa Barbara were pelicans… lots of pelicans.  Well, maybe not that many, but they were pretty photogenic, [...]

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Or American Bison, inhabit Catalina Island.  Here are a few shots of some locals at the Isthmus.  At one time, Catalina’s bison herd had a population of 600.  Now the herd is administered birth control by the Catalina Island Conservancy in order to control population.  What is up with that? The old fashioned way of [...]

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More on this later.. but for now, I leave you with a bewildered sea lion. Bewildered because Santa Barbara Island is a haven for pinnipeds, and not so much for humanoids like us (or the canine that’s aboard).

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