Did a quick check before turning my PC off. Glad I did so I can answer your question. They use small dinghys to get to shore. About 80% of Catalina is a nature conservancy, so human activity is strictly controlled. The Avalon Harbor Master strictly governs the harbor. People who don't have a small dinghy to go back and forth to shore can use the harbor shuttles.
They can't throw trash overboard. A trash boat comes by every day to pick up trash from the visiting boats. It's this strict attendance to cleanliness that keeps the water around the island crystal clear. Marine life thrives there and around all the channel islands off the Southern California coast.
They even have their own water purification plant and sewage is not permitted to go into the ocean.
What did I see in the right hand corner that I thought was a jetty then?
Thank you very much for the information....it sounds like a good system...
All we have around here are lakes..and the lake homes have their own boat docks...or the marinas have long docks with the boats tied to them...
It must be wonderful to live by the ocean...I am truly envious.