Last night the local news channel announced that a 30 feet gray whale swam all the way into San Diego Bay .... .... so we decided to go whale watching. We strolled Shelter Island up and down, the binocular and the camera always ready to shoot. We saw lots of nice and interesting things, but…..…...

South Park is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, East of Balboa Park, North of Golden Hill and Grant Hill and South of North Park, the boundary being Juniper Street. The area is part of Greater Golden Hill for San Diego city planning purposes. While some believe that it is part of Golden Hill, the…...

Mission Bay is a bay located south of the Pacific Beach community of San Diego, California. The bay is part of the recreational Mission Bay Park, which is the largest man-made aquatic park in the country, consisting of 4,235 acres (17.14 km2), approximately 46% land and 54% water. The combined area makes Mission Bay Park…...

Balboa Park is renowned for the lush landscaping and lovely gardens on its 1,200 acres, offering a magnificent backdrop for the cultural attractions. The Park was ranked among the Best Parks in the World by the Project for Public Places in 2003 (13 out of 24) for its mixture of horticulture and art and culture.…...

Waiting for the big one ... and do you see what I see ? Another wonderful day, sunny and warm. The perfect day to go to the beach! We were not the only ones. Lots of surfers were waiting for the perfect wave and some guests were visiting the shores as well - dolphins! There…...

Gravel road through Black Canyon… ... on our way to the desert, driving out of San Diego up San Pasqual Valley, with all its citrus trees, and past the Wild Animal Park, we change our minds in Ramona and turn left on 78 to Mesa Grande. There we take another left turn into a gravel…...

High up over San Diego and the Mexican border…. ....is where today’s trip took us. We headed south to Otay Lake and about 5 miles after the lake turned on a steep gravel road leaving the main road. We followed the road up the hills and enjoyed the beautiful panoramic view at an elevation of…...

On a mostly sunny Wednesday…. .... we hop in the car and drive 20 minutes North East to Lake Poway. A nice walk of about 3.5 Miles on a dusty trail sometimes closer sometimes a bit further away from the lake. The whole area looks very green now. But the signs of past bush fires…...

A day in the desert… ... HWY 8 to Ocotillo and then partly on the S2, partly off-road through the desert. In the afternoon we drove back home to San Diego over the Cuyamaca Mountains, where there was a foot of snow and lots of people sledding and enjoying the white winter-land!...