APPENDIX 373 



From New York there are several lines of steamers to New 

 Orleans (Southern Pacific) or Galveston, making (in the expe- 

 rience of the author) a pleasant diversion. At New Orleans, the 

 Sunset Route can be taken through Texas, New Mexico, and 

 Arizona to Los Angeles, a city of 350,000 inhabitants, from 

 which the steamers of the Wilmington Transportation Com- 

 pany can be taken daily to Santa Catalina Island. The port 

 of Los Angeles is reached in half an hour by the Pacific Elec- 

 tric Line, the Salt Lake Railroad, the Southern Pacific Railroad, 

 or the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, or it is a 

 pleasant motor car trip. 



From New York or Chicago, the Atchison, Topeka, and 

 Santa Fe Railroad takes one across the continent to Los Angeles, 

 now a great railroad centre. If the angler is in Montreal, or 

 desires the northern trip, he can take the Canadian Pacific, the 

 Northern Pacific, or the Union Pacific Railroads, pass through 

 Washington and Oregon, and come down the coast to Santa 

 Barbara, Los Angeles, or San Diego, each being off a distinct 

 group of the islands. 



CLIMATE AND ATTIRE 



There is generally something to be caught around the Chan- 

 nel Islands at any time, but Hke all other places they have a 

 fishing season^ and the best fishing is from May to January, 

 changing with the seasons. If the winter is very mild the 

 yellowtails do not all leave; I have caught them from the 

 Avalon wharf every week in the winter. 



In the matter of attire, anglers or visitors to Southern Cali- 

 fornia should dress, season for season, as they do in New York. 

 The flowers bloom all winter in Southern CaUfornia, but the 

 country is not in the tropics; it is cool and bracing, and you 

 need Eastern winter attire in winter, and Eastern summer 

 attire in summer. The man or woman who expects to wear 

 white flannels or musUn in Southern California in winter, or 

 from December to April, will suffer, even if the roses and 

 heliotrope are in full bloom out of doors. The winters are 

 dehghtful, but the summers at the islands are practically per- 

 fect. There is no rain between May and November, no storms, 



