California's Catalina evokes Mediterranean village vibe Catalina's main town of Avalon -- with its bayside location and white clapboard and stucco buildings clinging to palm-treed mountainsides -- looks more like a Mediterranean fishing village than any part of America.
Outdoors-East Bay Through July 11 ARDENWOOD HISTORIC FARM Ardenwood farm is a working farm that dates back to the time of the Patterson Ranch, a 19th-century estate with a mansion and Victorian Gardens. Today, the farm still practices farming techniques from the 1870s.