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Category Archives: California Coastal Notes of Interest
CityDig: Catalina Island’s Lost Landmark, Sugar Loaf Rock
LAmag.com
In 1929, dynamite forever changed the look of Catalina’s Avalon Bay.
Long one of Catalina’s most prominent landmarks, Sugar Loaf Rock was a volcanic monolithrising some 50 feet above the harbor where Avalon’s iconic Casino building stands today. Early 20th-century guidebooks described the Sugar Loaf as Avalon’s “sentinel rock,” and picture postcards—like the one above from the Catalina Island Museum’s collections
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Ocean Recreation Water Quality Warnings and Advisories: August 20
Time: 4:35 p.m.
Date: August 20, 2013
Closure and Posted Warning Status Report
Danapointtimes.com
Closures:
No closures at this time.
Posted Warnings:
Bacterial levels in ocean and bay recreational waters exceed health standards at the following locations:
Huntington Harbour
• Seagate Lagoon.
San Clemente
• 150 feet upcoast and 150 feet downcoast of Poche Creek at Poche Beach.
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Home on bombing range: Some endangered species thrive on military training ranges
By: Associated Press
SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND, Calif. — The sign leaves no doubt about the risk in entering the steep seaside hills that North America’s rarest bird calls home: “Danger. Boom. Explosives. Unexploded Ordnance and Laser Range in Use. Keep Out.”
Despite the weekly explosions that rock this Navy-owned island off the Southern California coast, the San Clemente Island loggerhead shrike has been rebounding from the brink of extinction, even on the military’s only ship-to-shore bombardment range.
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USA: LA Board of Harbor Commissioners Approves New Port Master Plan
DredgingToday.com
The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners today approved a new Port Master Plan that is the first comprehensive update of the Port’s development policies and procedures since its original plan took effect more than three decades ago.
The new Plan incorporates previous amendments and anticipated future changes to the use of property within the coastal zone managed by the Port. The document promotes orderly development consistent with the Port’s long-term goals of making the best use of its land and water resources, increasing terminal efficiency, accommodating diverse cargoes, increasing public access to the waterfront, enhancing recreational uses, and working to preserve the Port’s heritage through adaptive reuse of historic buildings and sites.
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Digging up bay’s dirty secrets
www.utsandiego.com
By Deborah Sullivan Brennan The San Diego Bay is scheduled for a deep cleaning next month, when shipyards south of the Coronado Bridge will dredge contaminated sediment to ensure healthier waters.Toxins from industrial operations, shipyards and urban runoff have built up over decades, settling in the sediment. They are absorbed by small animals, fish and eventually people, especially frequent fishermen.
The dredging effort would remove 158,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the area in front of BAE and NASSCO shipyards near the Coronado Bridge.
Continue Reading......Family Rescued In Pacific After Sailing ‘Where God Led Us’
Capradio.com
By Scott Neuman
A leap of faith that sent an Arizona family bound for the South Pacific in a sailboat has returned them in an airplane after a harrowing ordeal at sea that saw them adrift and nearly out of food in one of the remotest stretches of ocean on the planet.
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Landing a Giant
eCatalina.com
AVALON, CATALINA ISLAND - Bob Auerbach is in interesting guy. He has chartered Afishinados to fish Catalina Island during family vacations here for a number of years. He has a couple of sons and they often have a friend or two along for the ride. Bob is a fisherman. He knows how to fish and has caught his share of trophies. He is an unselfish guy and so when he charters us he is always trying to put his sons on the fish. Trouble is, fishing isn’t what it used to be, so for a number of years now we have not scored well on the glory fish.
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RBOC Calls for EPA to Adopt New Copper Standards
The Log
By: Ambrosia Brody
SACRAMENTO -- The boater advocacy group Recreational Boaters of California (RBOC) has issued a “Call to Arms,” asking boaters to contact their elected representatives in the California Senate and Assembly. The organization seeks legislators’ support for EPA adoption of new standards for dissolved copper in saltwater -- a move that could allow continued safe use of copper-based hull paints on recreational boats.
RBOC hopes the U.S. EPA Office of Water will be convinced to complete its review of the Copper Marine Biotic Ligand Model (BLM) for metals in saltwater, as soon as possible. The RBOC’s “Call to Arms” comes after the U.S. EPA announced that the BLM is on its “priority list” for completion for next year.
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What’s New on Catalina Island?
The Log
By: Ambrosia Brody
CATALINA ISLAND -- While summer temperatures will hit triple digits at inland communities this season, boaters can find respite from the heat on Catalina Island. Along with those cool island breezes, boating visitors will find a wide array of outdoor concerts, special events, festivals, attractions, hikes and island tours to enjoy here.
If you are looking for more than a day getaway, the Santa Catalina Island Co. (SCICo) is offering a new two-night Discover Catalina Package for extended stays. The Discover Catalina Package starts at $410 per person (double occupancy) and includes transportation between Avalon and Two Harbors and two nights’ accommodation at either Avalon’s Pavilion Hotel or a recently renovated vacation casa in Two Harbors -- the three-bedroom Casa Santa Cruz and four-bedroom Casa Santa Rosa on the isthmus. Or, visitors can pair a night at the Hotel Atwater in Avalon with a night at Two Harbors’ Banning House Lodge, a bed and breakfast inn...
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