Giving Back on Catalina Island One of the things that intrigues visitors to Santa Catalina Island is that it’s much more than just a top Southern California vacation destination. It’s also a community. People live here, work here and create their lives here. Living here means schools, churches and service clubs, places for residents to…

Crescent Avenue will be home to dozens of artists for the CAFE art show CAFE art show offers spring time art For more than five decades, Catalina Island has been home to the Catalina Festival of the Arts. This popular art show fills Crescent Avenue with artists from around the region. Glass, oil, photography, watercolors…

The Catalina Island Museum is home to cornucopia of historical artifacts. Native soap stone bowls. Valuable Catalina pottery. And a photography collection that chronicles more than a century of island life. For much of the first half of the last century, Catalina life frequently featured Hollywood celebrities working and playing on Santa Catalina Island. Hollywood icon…

Rotary Club of Avalon Catalina Island’s nearly 4,000 residents work and play year round on the island. Many of them also find time to give back through one of Avalon’s several service clubs. One of the most active Santa Catalina Island service clubs also happens to be one of the most popular service clubs in…

That’s a moray! Eels are a fascinating part of the Catalina marine ecosystem Catalina’s marine environment is home to a wide variety of marine life. Bright, colorful fish and playful marine mammals are part of that variety, but there are also creatures that humans find a bit more ominous. Moray eels are one such creature.…

Photo Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce Catalina Island Chamber of Commerce promotes the island Part of running business nearly anywhere in the world is joining together with other local businesses in a chamber of commerce. Networking, lobbying and mutual promotion are just some of the many benefits that business owners find when they come together…