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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Catalina Island Bison Herd Re-Listen

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The strange story of Catalina Island’s herd of bison, and the harrowing story of producer Sarah Wyman’s encounter with these intimidating residents. Read more in the Atlas: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/catalina-island-bison-herd

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Dylan here again.

0:06.4

This week we are taking a week of vacation because it is summer.

0:11.2

And so we're playing you summer themed episodes from our archives, but we also hope that these

0:15.0

inspire you to share some of your best summer travel stories.

0:19.0

Let us know about your crazy road trip disasters, about your best places you ever stumbled upon,

0:24.7

about that weird person you met on that trip.

0:28.0

You know.

0:29.0

It's tough to do that.

0:30.7

Leave us a voicemail at 315-992-7902.

0:34.6

It'll cut you off after about three minutes, but you can also send us a voicemail of any

0:38.7

length, not any length, like a reasonable length, I don't know, 20 minutes, whatever.

0:43.0

To helloatallosubscura.com.

0:46.1

We can't wait to hear from you and now on to the show.

0:56.4

Carolina Island is about 30 miles off the coast of Southern California.

1:00.7

If you're a Mac user, it might be the photo on your desktop right now, because Apple

1:04.9

named an operating system after the island.

1:09.4

So if you are on a Mac, go ahead and close all of your applications and folders.

1:18.1

That is Catalina, a beautiful island with steep rocky cliffs and coves along the coast.

1:25.4

Along before it became the face of an operating system, Catalina Island was known as a destination

1:30.8

for people living along the California coast.

1:33.7

A sort of getaway to camp, hike, or visit the main city of Avalon.

1:39.1

The island has a famous circular movie theater, which by the way, Nick Cage once called

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