Awesome!!! Carnival Inspiration Cruise - Day 2 on the island and we needed something to do and had planned to do a tour on Tuesday! Anyway... so we started looking at the tours... and decided on the Inland Expedition Tour. It was basically a 4 hour tour.. ::cue Gilligans Island music here:: (in all actuality, it was 3.5 tour... I just wanted to make the Gilligans Island reference!) but it was totally awesome. This and a couple other tours, besides, hiking (which to me would seem impossible - maybe backpacking is a more appropriate term for what you could do) are the only tours where you can go through and see other, basically, uninhabited parts of the island. It was amazing. After about 5 minutes out of Avalon, we were basically transported to the middle of nowhere. Looking out of the bus windows (the tours are all conducted in these vintage 1953 Flxible streamline buses... with comfortable seats and well taken care of but have a decidedly very vintage feel), you are either surrounded with a breathtaking view of the ocean and some peaceful harbors or desolate pieces of the island which bring to mind what it must have been like to live in California before there was any sort of civilization. I loved it! Did I mention the water is so clear, you can actually see the fish clearly through the water looking down into it? I have never seen anything like that and its something that will stick with me since I was so amazed by it! Anyway, back to the tour... aside from breathtaking views of the ocean, you go through the mainland which is lots of rolling green hills and wildlife. We were lucky enough to see one Island Fox... which are tiny little things but cute nonetheless! And the humongous Buffalo! Super awesome! I couldnt believe we saw those things roaming out in the wild. It was definitely awesome and something that I was hoping to see on our trip... but was also unexpected since its basically up to their wild animal whims. :) The tour was also pretty informative. I learned a bit more about the island... got to see some of the back of the island (which is so remote and desolate and untouched by humans... which is absolutely amazing! I cannot stress this enough!) and experience something totally out of what Im used to. FRED our tour guide, he was an older guy who seemed like a mix between Andy Griffith and Tommy Lee Jones, if that helps! He lived on the Catalina Island for 40 years... WE definitely recommend the tour and I would do it again in a heartbeat!
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 20:34:41 +0000
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