Friday, May 11, 2007

Catalina Island

As some of you may have heard, there is a fire raging on Catalina Island off the coast of California. It is especially threatening the tiny, one square mile town of Avalon.

I'm not sure how many of you know that John's younger sister Katie, who was married just one week ago, lives in Avalon with her new husband Eddie. His older's sister, Elizabeth, and her husband Grant, moved to Catalina quite a few years ago to run a YMCA camp. They have since relocated back to Florida, however, Katie, who helped them run the camp, has stayed and is now working at a hotel on the island. Eddie is a boat captain.

JB and I visited Catalina Island back in 2001. It is a beautiful island and am amazing place. They have been evacuating people by ferry since yesterday. Please be praying for the people and the town itself. When your town is one square mile, everyone is affected.

4 comments:

Amy T. S. said...

I used to go to a camp on Catalina Island, Wendi. Is that where the camp is? Yikes. That was a very, very fun place to go for camp. There was a dock we used to snorkel off of and see lots of garibaldi. They had open-air cabins at the camp, and wild boar on the island. (It was the late 70s.)

This makes me sad. I love Catalina Island.

Wendi Kitsteiner said...

I am wondering if it was the same camp. Yes, there's was a YMCA camp on the island!!!

Gabbs said...

There's 2 that the YMCA had run. The old one was White's Landing, and the other was Fox. They both had open air cabins. It could have been the same camp!

Amy T. S. said...

It was SOOOO fun. Glad the fires are under control!