Descanso Beach Ocean Sports — Local services in Avalon

Our first time ever in Catalina Island and we decided to kayak to our camp at Long Point. Mary the owner of Descanso Sports set up our reservation and took the time to explain how it all worked. When we arrived Jake and the crew were so helpfull. They gave us bags to protect our stuff told us how to pack our kayaks and let us store some bags that weren't needed on our trip. Before leaving they gave us pointers and and help us on our way... The first hour was beautiful and fun but we were kayaking against the wind on mile two and the sea got very choppy and we started to struggle to make headway.. We stopped at Hermits camp and had thankfully got some cell service, called Jake at Descanso. He helped set up the Baywatch rescue and 30 min later we were back in Descanso safe and sound. We are so so so grateful for all their help and for not making us feel like idiots. They were the sweetest kindest people ever. Thank you! We...

Highly recommend this rental spot. The first time we went my husband and I rented a kayak and snorkeling gear for two. It was so nice to have four wide hours in which to explore, there was no clock ticking on our rental. we got a nice long paddle in. Snorkel gear is one price for the day.

Pitts was enormously helpful as we grilled him with questions about where to go and the best snorkel spots, the staff walked us through everything from loading our boat to putting us out to sea.

We followed Pitts' advice and checked out some really amazing coves, we snorkeled with sea lions, saw beautiful fish. We got the boat back early and took the snorkel gear out right in Descanso and saw a world of sea life. Personable crew--we felt like they would have our backs if something came up. Nothing was stressful about the rental which is what you want...

Had an AMAZING experience snorkeling off the Casino Park and Descanso Beach. The kelp forests are truly spectacular and so accessible. And they HAD PRESCRIPTION GOGGLES which worked really well, so if you show up in glasses they can help you out. I wanted to go snorkel but totally forgot to put my contacts in and was so bummed until we found these guys. I went to every snorkel shop in Avalon basically looking for a solution and they were the only one that had one... So I can also report that they had very fair prices perhaps the lowest of anywhere. We asked them about a thousand questions and they were very patient and friendly. Overall...