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Patti on our balcony
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Old Town Trolley
Our trolley driver was "Frank, and I've always been Frank, and my navigator here is Charles Lin-Bear". We got to hear this at every stop. |
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Balboa Park
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Balboa Park
Casa del Prado |
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Balboa Park
Museum of Art |
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Balboa Park
A long view of Speckels Organ Pavilion. The largest outdoor instrument weighing 100,000 lbs and containing 4518 pipes. |
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Balboa Park
The Art Institute & Mingei Museum |
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Balboa Park
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Balboa Park
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Balboa Park
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Balboa Park
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Petco Park
The trolley was moving fast so I took what I could |
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Petco Park
Very similar to SBC (AKA Pac Bell) Park here in San Francisco |
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Streetcar line
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Coronado Bridge
The bridge to Coronado Island, which really isn't an island but a peninsula. |
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View of San Diego
from the Coronado Bridge |
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The Navy Fleet
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The Del Coronado Hotel
This is the best view we could get from the trolley. Frank didn't stop or slow enough to see more. |
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Giant Tarantula
Patti wanted to check out the "Backyard Monsters" exhibit at the Natural History Museum. It was pretty cool even if it was geared more to kids. |
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Giant Tarantula
Watch out for those fangs |
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Giant Caterpillar
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Giant Praying Mantis
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Balboa Park Tree
A giant fig tree |
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Old Town
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Old Town
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Patti on the gangway
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View of Monarch from pier
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View of pier from the ship
Some of the many wooden ships at the pier. The steamship on the left is the Berkeley (as in Berkeley, CA). It used to ply the S.F. Bay. |
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F-18's on Coronado
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F-18's on Coronado
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Main runway
If you look close you can see the Hotel Del Coronado just beyond the end of the runway. |
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Interesting thing to name a ship
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Avalon Casino
The amazing main dance "hall". Notice that there are no poles. |
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Casino Chandelier
The whole thing is cranked down semi-automatically with series of pulleys and gears to facilitate lightbulb changing. Amazing piece of engineering. |
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Casino Room
They actually had 6000 people in here once. |
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Casino & Monarch
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Obligatory tourist shot
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Soda bar
Part of the former 100 ft long soda fountain/bar |
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Bill & Friend
The bison in front of the museum is painted in Chicago Cubs colors. Wrigley who owned the Cubs actually flew the team out to Catalina for spring training for many years. |
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Avalon Bay
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Avalon Bay
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Avalon Bay
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Boats
Looks like a postcard doesn't it? |
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Monarch view
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Tile Mural
One of the many tile murals along the walkway to the casino. The Grumman Goose was a popular mode of transport to Catalina in the day. |
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Tile Mural
Catalina is known for their custom painted tiles. They're all over the town. Catalina is also known for the Bison or Buffalo brought over for a movie shoot and never removed. |
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Drivers Ed Golf Cart
I guess they need to test how well people can drive them. |
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Monarch through the palms
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Island View
The mansion in the upper left is the Wrigley house. It's painted in "Doublemint" colors. |
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B & B
Thought this was a Wrigley house. It's not. It is one of the oldest houses on the island though. |
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B & B & Fountain
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Formal night
This is about as formal as we get on a 4 night cruise. |
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Tablemates
Leslie & Mary |
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Tablemates
Bill, Ron & Brian |
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Monarch Pool
Taken from the Viking Crown. |
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Viking Crown
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What is it????
Our steward left this towel "animal" one night and we still can't figure out what it's supposed to be. |
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What is it????
Muscle-bound Swan??? |
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