What's your best memory of Catalina Island?

@basicallypoppy

3 жыл бұрын

grew up in SoCal, only been to Catalina once as a kid (avalon) but i remember riding the catalina express shuttle boat, good times - also wow, the end of that runway, my goodness that is dramatic 😮 thanks as always for the vid, Micah

@ZapFlashD

3 жыл бұрын

I've only been to Catalina one time as a fourth grader. We didn't do much and we only stayed the night. The next afternoon we took the Catalina Express back to Long Beach.

@davidfrania8990

3 жыл бұрын

WOW Micah! I had to pause the video just to comment because I am so blown away...I went to Catalina by helicopter back in the eighties...But definitely not like that! Truly spectacular!

@joemusic2882

3 жыл бұрын

I’m actually embarrassed to admit I’ve never been there despite being born and lived in Southern California all my 61 years

@MsPinkwolf

3 жыл бұрын

The approach. It felt like I was in the opening scene of a Jurrasic Park movie!

Best video yet. Just wow!

@raz3000

3 жыл бұрын

Agree this is exhilarating even through a tv screen

@janaaj1an889

3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid (1960 or so) we lived in Lakewood and the amphibious planes used for shuttles to Catalina approached over our house. I thought they were cool. Never got there, though...so thanks!!

@janaaj1an889

3 жыл бұрын

Approached to Long Beach airport, I should have said.

And California has never and will never suck. Just some of the people on it..

What an amazing video. The absolute best way to sit home and enjoy the incredible views of Catalina Island. The best video yet Micah. Thanks for taking me with you.

@narrativeform

3 жыл бұрын

@Zachary Ty 🙏🏻😊

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. You're welcome in my 🚁 any time!

July 20th, 1969. Sailed to Catalina on the S.S. Catalina. We were on a glass bottom boat listening to the radio when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The captain was a naturalized Greek, New to America. He was so proud of his new country, he passed out little American flags and about blew his whistle sounding it. The other boats in the harbor took it up and the cheers and ships whistles made you so proud. Thanks for the flight!!

Best Flying Eyes commercial of all time.

The ppl who hate California are mostly ppl who've never been here, they're just cranky ppl online dealing with snowstorms lol.

@ast5515

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I would gladly take snow over what we currently have. In most of Europe we have fog and possibly a bit of rain. That's it.

@alanaldpal950

3 жыл бұрын

No the people who “hate California” include people like me that have lived here for 40+ years and love the physical beauty of California but hate what the politicians and various interests groups have done to destroy the quality of life for any one trying to live here.

@standudinski

3 жыл бұрын

i drive the 10 from DTLA to SaMo and back daily. i hate CA

@JimBo-ho8qw

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know. I've lived in California my entire life (almost 60 years) with 1/3 of that in SoCal and the rest in the SF Bay Area, and I hate what this state has become. If not for family I would be gone. The weather is great, but at what price? I do not want to die here, although I do want to be buried here.

@Fan_Made_Videos

5 ай бұрын

Seeing the responses from haters confirms that they're old and cranky. They expect life to stay the same and hate change, including cultural and ethnic demographic changes, then they blame "politics". 😅

Oh my, this might be my favorite Micah Flies video yet.

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

From my side of things, I have to agree.🙂

Beautiful Michael from a cold wet locked down York in 🇬🇧

Thanks for going to Catalina, Micah! Best memory: camping at Two Harbors in October, during Buccaneer Days, and walking down to the beach to just go swim out to boats.

Been waiting for this one. It did not disappoint. Absolutely beautiful footage.

@Micah, many thanks for this epic tour of Catalina Island. Bravo!!!

Thank you Micah for showing us this beautiful seldom seen view of Catalina! Great video!

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the support, Jason. Cheers!!

Absolutely spectacular

Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thank you for your output this year. Hoping for better things next year.

Absolutely Awesome.

Just now having the time to watch this! Merry Christmas Micah and to your family, as well! Your copter tours have been such a great distraction from an otherwise disastrous year 🚁❤️👏🏻

Yes do more of these!!

Wow! My favourite by far! You put a smile back on my face after being put in lockdown yesterday. Can't wait to go back to Catalina again.

Great video, and pictures! Thanks for doing this one.

Amazing! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the tour. I love the low level flying !

Yay! I've been waiting for a Catalina/Buffalo video. Can't wait till it's safe to go there again!

Yes! I'm enjoying this very much!!! Your flights are rad!!!

Awesome. Thank you

Beautiful!

SO AWESOME!!

A really spectacular video, Micah. Thank you!

Great vid! Love the shoreline flyovers.

Some beautiful footage, just amazing! Didn't know much about the island so enjoyed the info. Really a unique place...and the buffalo part is wild.

Yes!! This is awesome!

Nice thanks again!!!

Badass video! Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed it.

Just stellar!!!👍🏻

Thank you!

Thank you Micah..for doing this island tour...I was a counselor at Catalina Island camp at Howlands landing back in the 70's ..good times...never ever saw the west side of the island...beautiful.

Definitely my favorite video. Awesome and thank you. Merry Christmas and happy new year.

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

And a Merry Christmas to you too!!

Beautiful

Amazing Micah!

This is freaking awesome, Micah. Thank you for the work that goes into this. Wow. Thank you!

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

That southern coast line!! Wow! And my best and only memory from Catalina was that it was the second of three stops on our honeymoon cruise back in 2008. My wife loves golf so that was what we did on our excursion to Avalon.

Amazing video. Great work!

This was awesome thank you

Thanks Micah. Been waiting for this.

Nice to be able to see the parts of the island most of us never get to see.

Wow. That was amazing. I’ve seen the island in the distance. It’s like a piece of the mountains just sitting off the coast. That was amazing seeing the islands up close like that.

Very nice low-level flying! Catalina is beautiful.

Thank you for the awesome aerial tour of the other side of Catalina! That was beautiful! We have been to Avalon before and loved it, but want to go back and explore more of the island. Anyway, your videos are the best I’ve ever seen, great work, love it!

kool , thanx RJ

This is awesome! Thank you, Micah! I grew up and lived in Manhattan Beach for 37 years and never once went to Catalina. I'd often gaze at it from the Pier or beach but still have yet to get there. One of these days! In the meantime, thanks for taking me there!

Great video as always man

super cool! thanks Micah - Loved watching the backside of the island

Stellar Video!!!!

Awesome video Catalina Island. Thank you for that Micah!

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

And thank you for watching!

Amazing

this is awesome!!

Wonderful video... thanks

Loved Avalon!

I enjoy your videos, Micah, but this one... Wow! I love Catalina Island. Thanks for showing me the parts I don't get to see.

That was fun to watch.

Best ever video ever. Great Job!!

that was one of your best videos for sure!

A step above!

Have only been there by cruise ship - this was great!!! I think my favorite video of yours ever!!

My dude. I love it. I grew up there every summer for a year on the back side. Little harbor all the way and love the video so many stories about the island would love to tell them!!!

Best one yet.

Great video and photos

NOT a waste of time! Loved this video. Took me back to my youth when we sailed over a couple of times from San Pedro. It's a magical place, and like most people, I too had never seen the back side of the island. Thank you!

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

It really is another world back there. Thanks for watching, Mark!!

This vid is especially great because it's something virtually no one ever sees. Yet it's just minutes away from some of the most populated areas in the USA!

Had some great times at Catalina, way back in the 80‘s 😲

Thank you for this video!!!

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for joining us!

This and big bear is my favorite to date. Thanks.

Micah..wow. Been watching you fly around Cali for awhile now. Best low level HD video yet! Subscribed, hope to see you at 100k soon.

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

We'll get to 100k. But for now I'm just grateful to have such an awesome audience. Thanks for supporting me and the channel!!

Awesome video Micah! Great job!

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank so much!

I love Los Angeles and Southern California and seeing this makes me love it even more! I always wondered what was on Catalina an now I know! I love that little town!

@briane173

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up there and so I've always liked SoCal, in fact ALL of California. I just can't return because of what politicians have done to the state. It borders on criminal. California itself? It has every manner of geography, geology, climate, and history you could possibly get from every other spot on the Continent -- and to me that's what makes California special. I had some great memories sailing to Catalina when I was doing competitive yacht racing, and was lucky enough to grow up in a family and lifestyle that allowed for some of the fun things we used to do and the places we'd go when we lived there. But my absolute favorite place in CA is the mountains -- San Gabriel/San Bernardino/San Jacinto Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada. In my mind that is God's country and it's the closes thing to Heaven I can think of.

Excellent video.

I was Born in Santa Barbara and raised in Southern California. I had no clue the backside of Catalina was anything like that. Amazing!!. Thank you!!!

Awesome ! Lived in So Cal all my life and been to Catalina many times but never seen the other side of the island. So different

You really did it with this one Micah! This was so amazing and magical. Thank you so much! And I've never been to Hawaii either, I don't like flying. lol Those are my two great shames as well.

Wow! Great video. I spent my senior year of high school (71-72) at Catalina Island School, which is now a marine biology entity of some sort. It was just a couple miles north of Avalon. This video brings back a lot of memories. Way cool!

It's your chopper, you go where you want, we enjoy through you. Don't stop. When I flew out of LAX, we came very close to the island, but your version is absolutely better.

Very nice!

Great Santa Catalina Island tour! Please do the Channel Islands off the Santa Barbara coast next!

Cooool!!

Probably your best flying video you have ever done. Totally enjoyed it as I have never seen the backside of Catalina ever.

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

It's remarkable how untouched the backside of Catalina is, despite its proximity to LA. Such a cool place. I'm glad we could share it!

I love the view

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

Catalina is such a special place. I'm glad I could share it.

Well done.

Quite possibly my favorite Micah Files video ever.

Micah I always enjoy your videos and they remind me of the many years and enjoyment of my flying. I used to own a Cessna 421 and have been flying since 1962 and only have less than 50 hrs in rotorcraft. Thanks for providing such great go pro videos and giving such a great narrative. Also, I have been a professional photographer/instructor for over 55 yrs and while I enjoyed seeing the guy taking pictures I was surprised that he was doing that a few photographers and many of my former students did..."Chimping" that is when you take a shot and look at the screen to see the results. If a photographer knows what he is doing there is no need to do that. That picture of Avalon could have been stunning because you positioned the copter at a perfect angle which couldn't have been better. The only problem is that it was shot at a very high ISO setting which introduced a lot of color noise (little speckles like grains) into the picture (especially in the water and hills) and a photo processing program was used to bring up the shadows which made the noise more pronounced and the highlights appear to be washed out. One last thing....he should have used a lens hood to prevent reflections and glare which would have reduced the contrast. I have shot thousands of times from aircraft and would never omit a lens hood. Really looking forward to more of your great video's .

I grew up in the Sea Explorers in the OC and have been to the island a zillion times. NEVER, though, have I seen the western/southern coastline. I've always been curious. Thanks Micah!! - Jason

Few people doubt that California is a beautiful place. It's paradise, but for many the way it's governed leaves something to be desired. No rants from me though. Thanks for the video. Looks good on the laptop, but I'll have to watch it again on the TV.

Yess I asked for this a year ago and it’s finally hear thx

Wow Micah Good Job, I had no idea the back of Catalina was like that. Rocky, unoccupied, more barren than I thought. This actually a good educational film. Please do the northern Islands some time.

This was the best video I’ve seen you do.......thanks.......

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

That's so kind of you to say. I'm really proud of this one!

Brother, this is your best video ever! I have seen several aviation videos from like Aviation 101 fly there in a plane but this is amazing. Please take us around more of California if you can, that would be amazing. One day I'll fly my plane out there and join ya. Keep making these scenic flights instead of just city only flights!

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Come on out and we'll go flying. Until then, we've got plans to expand the heli videos on my channel in 2021. Good things coming!

Amazing shots! I was part of 2020 census. I had 8 zones under me, from Torrance to Catalina. Catalina (Zone 1) was the most challenging and fun assignment. Most tourist are limited to Avalon only primarily because island is run by conservatory. Only tourist companies or local residents with permit cars are allowed to go to remote areas. We had an amazing team of local resident who went to all remote areas by cars, bikes and boats to make sure everyone was counted..

I’ve literally watched this 6 times already, and I feel like my stress levels decrease with each watch. It’s stunning

Fantastic! I wish I could fly with you.

I would really love to see the flight out there or back!

THIS IS SOO COOL..THANKS YOU!!😎👍👍

@MicahMuzio

3 жыл бұрын

And thank YOU for watching!!