The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 34

D-4 THE SUN-TELEGRAM Ftb. 10, 1974 Dana Point weekend offers somethiug for everyone San Rernardino sites here with a maximum use period of three days. For a change of pace, you can take a stroll around the wharf. There are plenty of gift shops to amuse young and old. And if you wish to eat out for a treat, there are three restaurants the Castaways, Wind Sea and Jolly Rogers.

A fourth one, Red Onion, will open soon. Most of all, Dana Point Is an easy one tank of gas weekend from San Bernar-' dino. It's only a 90-minute drive, freeway all the way, with plenty of parking space when you arrive, except on a hot summer Sunday when it. is almost impossible to find anyplace to park near your favorite Southland beaches. For camper-trailer buffs, Doheny State Park Is just south of Dana Wharf jetty.

This large campground and day-use park Is one of the most popular in the Southland. Reservations can be made for the campground through Ticketron. Daily charge per campsite is $3, while the day-use fee is only $1 per car. There are 115 campsites and 146 picnic sites in this spacious oceanfront park, one of the most modern in the State Park system. In summer this is an excellent swimming beach.

Orange County Park District also has a new campground adjacent to the harbor. There are 30 to 40 kle. Best bait for opaleye is frozen green peas, just like the kind you get at the supermarket. Part-time sailors don't need their own boat here since you can rent a skiff, rowhoat or sailing craft at the Embarcadero Marina. Popular 14-foot fishing skiffs (with motors) rent for $6 an hour or $18 for a half day.

For sailors, there are 14-foot sloops at $5 an hour which must be used inside the breakwater. For sailing in open water there are 21-foot Victory sloops for $8 an hour or 23-foot Coronados at $35 for four hours. (Rental rates decrease proportionately when you rent for periods longer than an hour.) you can try a hand at deep-sea fishing on the boats that leave daily from this same pier. In winter, the main catch is rock cod which are taken on heavy tackle, fishing the floor of the ocean. The fare on an all-day fishing boat is $12 for adults and $7 for children age 12 and under.

The half-day fare is $7.50 and $4.50 for children. Whale-watching excursions leave the dock at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. this month, with a fare of $3 for adults and $2 for children. Fishing from the jetties is free.

This is a good place for the young anglers in the family to catch perch and opaleye on light spinning tac Weekender spots for Southern California travelers when it is loo windy to go to the mountains or deserts. What can you do here? The key word is variety to suit almost any taste. You can go sailing, relax on the beach, fish or play along the miles of jetties, walk along the wharf that is "home" for some 1,500 sailing craft, browse at a gift shop and cap the day with supper at a fine seaside restaurant. Or, if you are a landlocked sailor, you can spend a day on the ocean. There are whale-watching excursions on weekends aboard the Sum Fun, which sails out of Dana Wharf sportsfishing docks.

Or By GORDON COY Sun-Teleoram Stiff Writer DANA POINT From the high bluffs overlooking the calm, blue Pacific, you can watch the whales play tag with the sailboats skimming gracefully only a few hundred yards offshore. Nearby on the long, ragged rock jetties, happy children scamper and jump from stone to stone, chasing sea crabs and tugging at starfish clinging on the underside of ocean-damp rocks. On a clear day in winter, when the Santa Ana winds are whipping the lower canyons inland, the ocean here gleams mirror-smooth in the afternoon sun. This is one of the better Sania Ana I I Dana Point 9 Make your travel plans for 1975 and beyond? JTV 9 Marge Suesserman booked month and June, July and August the heaviest You also need to keep an eye out for local celebrations (Mardi Gras in New Orleans, for example) and blockbuster conventions which can have a severe impact, on bo a ortation and accommodations. Although many hotels can and do take reservations a year ahead, they have also been known to bounce you if they get a bet population centers), you can book as far as two months ahead and for Greyhound's Executive Service (northeast corridor) six months ahead.

Ships are usually scheduled about a year in advance and frequently take "listings" for one or more years before that. In this instance, though, advance bookings have rarely been for space reasons but rather a desire for a particular cabin or price. group booking. Airline computers are set. up to take bookings up to just short of a year in advance.

Amtrak passenger trains can be reserved as much as 90 days ahead except for Me-troliners (New a -1 -Washington service), which have a 60-day limit. Most interstate buses operate without reservations, however. For confirmed seats on Trailways Five-Star service (countrywide between major ter offer, for example, a big MEXICO CRUISE Critique Travel Service announces a seven day escorted fun cruise to MEXICO aboard the new and luxuriouj cruise ship SPIRIT OF LONDON depnrting May 11, 1974. Includes round trip cruise, oil meals (elegant dining), free entertainment in the ttar studded night club, swimming pool, movies, shopping bargains, plus stops at the exotic Mexican cities, of Puerto Vallorta and Mazatlan. Chartered bus available to pier and return.

Price range is from S345 to $575 depending upon availability. We suggest eorly reservations if you wish to join us on 8th Annual Southern SPRING FLING SAVE FUEL OUR CHARTER OELUXE MOTOR COACH IS THE WAY TO TRAVEL By JANE MORSE Hark! Is that the travel world tumbling and crumbling all around you? No, 'tis so far just the jangling of nerves, caused by the present climate of uncertainty. Here and there, though, you'll also hear the shuffle of papers and the hum of computers as the wheelers and dealers anticipate and yes process reservations for 1975 and beyond. Whatever happened to 1974? Well you might ask. The only thing clear is confusion.

Nonetheless, some crystal-ball gazers peering deep into their murky instruments see increasing numbers of anxious travelers attempting to get a little surety in their lives by planning ahead, even way ahead. Air and Marine Travel in Manhattan is one agency acne i reservations-for-reservations on ships expected to sail five years from now, and quite a few tour operators are taking deposits for "packages" the consumer won't unwrap until '75 and 76. Italy a Holy Year in 1975 and the United States has its bicentennial in '76 so the block bookers have already lined up lots in the way of a ortation and accommodations. While such early activity is not new or unusual for sellers, it would be for most American buyers who tend to be as big a bunch change his habits? Possibly two, it turns out: (1) If you fancy making off with any travel prizes at either the highest or lowest end of the price scale, and (2) if you want to beat the competition tn available public transportation space. Booking early is sometimes theonly answer, even though it can't save you from cancellations or price increases.

However, if the industry doesn't dream up new ways to protect customers against such upsets with a choice of attractive alternatives or compensation, chances are customers will protect themselves by making double, triple and quadruple bookings. Then if one set of plans goes out the window, they'll shift to another avoiding, of course, arrangements that won't let them out with full-deposit refunds. For those who want to plan ahead, here are some other til igs to bear in mind: Peak periods that, might have caused you trouble with public transportation in the past have been from December through mid-April (north south migration and ski areas), the summer school vacation period (Hawaii and the North Atlantic), the day before a holiday and the weekend after and daily "rush hours" of 7-9 a.m., 5-7 p.m. Overall, November has usually been the most lightly Join our charming HOLIDAY TOURS escort for the most beautiful tour of all. Our travelers come back rested not exhausted.

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