Catalina 2012 With The Duda's

Nick gets a break and we do our pre-Avalon Ball coordinations

What A Beautiful Day To Go To Catalina (Page One)

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We are off on an adventure


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Our Carriage Awaits....

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
We had the little guy today

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Our favorite place....

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Goodbye Queen... See you in about seven hours

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
We finally got the Captains Lounge... With great service

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Time to visit and watch the fish

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Setting the self timer is not for the faint of heart

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
We had a great view from our private cabin

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
They are watching the inside of a snowbank

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Past the breakwater... Kick up her heels and off we go!

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
There is a feeding frenzy underway and loads of porpoises are involved

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
The water seems to be boiling with activity

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Telephoto on a moving boat is NOT easy

Did You Know? - In photography and cinematography, a telephoto lens is a specific type of a long-focus lens in which the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length. This is achieved by incorporating a special lens group known as a telephoto group that extends the light path to create a long-focus lens in a much shorter overall design. The angle of view and other effects of long-focus lenses are the same for telephoto lenses of the same specified focal length. Long-focal-length lenses are often informally referred to as telephoto lenses although this is technically incorrect: a telephoto lens specifically incorporates the telephoto group.

Catalina Is In View...

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Land Ho

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
We liked the decor...

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
We know what that is

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Looks tiny until you get inside

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Too cold for parasailing this day

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
The submarine was busy

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
No wind... That is a good thing

Did You Know? - A windsock is a conical textile tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed. Windsocks typically are used at airports and at chemical plants where there is risk of gaseous leakage. They are sometimes located alongside highways at windy locations.

Wind direction is the opposite of the direction in which the windsock is pointing (note that wind directions are conventionally specified as being the compass point from which the wind originates; so a windsock pointing due north indicates a southerly wind). Windspeed is indicated by the windsock's angle relative to the mounting pole; in low winds, the windsock droops; in high winds it flies horizontally.

Per FAA standards referenced below, a 15-knot (28 km/h; 17 mph) wind will fully extend the properly functioning windsock. A 3-knot (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) breeze will cause the properly functioning windsock to orient itself according to the wind.

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

We Have Arrived

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
As the sign says... "Welcome To Avalon"


Great ceramic map

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
The harbor is quiet since it is a Wednesday ... So, "What's uo, dock??"

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
The seas are calm

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
This we call "Strolling" ... It freighten's the little birds and small children

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Luau Larry's.... There is Luau Nick

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Local gossip??? Sounds delightful

Did You Know? Gossip is idle talk or rumor about the personal or private affairs of others. It is one of the oldest and most common means of sharing facts and views, but also has a reputation for the introduction of errors and variations into the information transmitted. The term can also imply that the idle chat or rum our is of personal or trivial nature, as opposed to normal conversation.

Gossip has been researched in terms of its evolutionary psychology origins. This has found gossip to be an important means by which people can monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity. Indirect reciprocity is defined here as "I help you and somebody else helps me." Gossip has also been identified by Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary biologist, as aiding social bonding in large groups. With the advent of the internet gossip is now widespread on an instant basis, from one place in the world to another what used to take a long time to filter through is now instant.

Time For Lunch At El Galleon

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Decorations everywhere

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Mardi Gras?

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Sue's folks used to come to Catalina and spend two weeks.... Their table was in back

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Decisions decisions

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
The clocks were all set to great places to be...

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
DO NOT open the windows

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Oops! Meet the bouncer

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's
Right on the waterfront

A Little Miniature Golf???

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

Adventure in Catalina March 2012 with the Duda's

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