{"id":792,"date":"2016-07-31T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2016\/07\/31\/east-end-adventures"},"modified":"2017-09-11T07:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:39:25","slug":"east-end-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"East End Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\">One has a few options to see Catalina from the interior :<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">*hike the trails<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">*bike the trails<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">*go with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitcatalinaisland.com\/activities-adventures\/land\/east-end-adventure\">East End Adventures<\/a> in a military style Hummer<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/80084-g0178148.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/80084-g0178148.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Our guide and driver was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewisblack.com\/\">Lewis Black<\/a> type personality (I&#8217;m still not entirely convinced it wasn&#8217;t the comedian) that kept us informed and entertained as we traversed the steep inclines of the Santa Catalina mountains.<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/12921-g0198178.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/12921-g0198178.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">We spotted small foxes, deer, and buffalo, and could faintly see the outline and water spouts of gray whales in the Pacific.\u00a0<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/e19ef-wfjo0942.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/e19ef-wfjo0942.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The history of the Island is just as captivating as its landscape, with stories of World War Two and this islands worry about being overtaken by Japanese forces to more modern tales of conservation and seismic earthquake and tsunami monitoring that take place here.<a style=\"margin-left: 1em; 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