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I know you are planning to visit islands other than Catalina but Two Harbors does have coin operated showers and laundry. Shoreboat service and moorings are available with a call on Channel 9. They have pumpout stations and fuel docks as well. I must warn you however that after a fine meal at The Harbor Reef Restaurant followed by a few Buffalo Milk cocktails you may forget about the other islands. They have no services and are remarkably similar to Saddleback Mountain surrounded by frigid water. May I suggest you take a drive up the dirt road into Trabucco Canyon. The trees cross over the creek, the sound of the water is lovely. They stock it with trout and there are deer, pumas, endangered salamanders and Arroyo Toads. If you set your parking brake your anchor will never pull. My trips to the other islands have actually been nerve wracking, all night anchor watches, erratic winds and swells, plenty of dangerous rocks and kelp beds to dodge. Maybe I'm just getting too old to come home exhausted from my vacations.

Thanks for the insight David! Having been all over and around Catalina numerous times, my reasons for going to the other islands is simply to do something different.

Being here in San Diego, there are only three possible cruising grounds:

1) South to Rosario or possibly as far as Ensenada, with all the attendant problems one deals with in Mexico.

2) North along the coast to Oceanside, Dana Point, and Newport. That's like being in San Deigo three times over.

3) Catalina

My problem is that I've done all these trips a number of times, and I'm looking for a bit more of a challenge. So the wilder Channel Islands beckon as the last reasonable trip I haven't made. After that I'll have to go farther north to point conception or perhaps to the North Sea of Cortez by trailer.

I do love Two Harbors though--Its my favorite part of Catalina.