Posts Tagged Halfmoon

2007 PFIC/UPSAC Catalina Get Together

March 28, 2018 by kenjones
The official 2007 Catalina Get Together Logo This proposed logo finished second among PFIC voters This proposed logo was considered just a tad bit too risqué Another Catalina Report—by Ken Jones — More Than You Probably Wanted To Know About The Sixth Annual Catalina Get Together KJ and Friend Scene 1A:  It is somewhere around [...]

A Short Trip to Avalon & Catalina Island — June 2017

June 12, 2017 by kenjones
Given that my annual trip to Catalina was due, and that a ferry ride to Avalon is free on your birthday, I decided to head over to Avalon on June 6, my birthday, with my friend Hashem Nahid. The casino at Avalon. We decided to take the 6 a.m. ferry from Long Beach and had [...]

Halfmoon

October 22, 2016 by kenjones
 Sea Chubs—Family Kyphosidae Halfmoon caught at Catalina in 2010 Species: Medialuna californiensis (Steindachner, 1876); from the Spanish word medialuna (halfmoon, referring to the shape of the tail) and californiensis  (California, where first found). Alternate Names: Catalina blue perch, island mackerel, blooper, blue wizard, blue perch or blue bass. In early days sometimes called medialuna. In [...]

Pier Fish of Catalina Island

February 26, 2014 by kenjones
Catalina Island and its main city Avalon are wonderful places to visit and offer up an environment and atmosphere markedly different from that of the mainland that sits just a short, hour-long ferry ride away. So too the piers on Catalina, which offer up a plethora of different species of fish many of which are [...]