Santa Catalina Island — The land of tiles

This post is dedicated to Michelle Molinari, an award-winning Certified Property Consultant and Founder/Lead Virtual Designer for “Feature This…”a real estate staging and curb appeal consulting company in Abbeville, Louisiana. I have known Michelle for several years through a real estate professional networking site and highly recommend her and her team for anyone needing real estate staging, curb appeal consulting, or interior decor services in the New Orleans area. Make your home look its best!

Dedications are my way of trying to provide a little extra Google juice for people I have come to know and respect over the years.

My recent trip to Santa Catalina Island took me to the land of tiles. From the moment you get off of the boat, tiles everywhere, beginning with the official welcome sign and map of Avalon:

After leaving the dock, you see tile fences, tile walls, tile ceilings, tile, tile, tile, ad infinitum.

The tiles in the following five pictures were set in a residential fence. Each tile had its own little display (loggia? portico?), and these were just the five tiles that I could get a good picture of. Each fence section all the way around the house had its own tile.

There are tile retaining walls:

Tile location signs:

Tile ceilings, walls, and water fountains:

More tile fences, these at commercial or goverment properties:

The last picture shows buffalo, and there really are buffalo (American bison) on the Island. I’m not sure how they got there, but I know that William Wrigley Sr., chewing gum magnate and founding owner of the Chicago Cubs, had a lot to do with it back at the beginning of the 20th century. I’ll know more by the time I finish this series on Santa Calalina Island because we still have to visit the Conservancy, Avalon harbor, the William Wrigley Sr. Memorial, and see some wildlife.