Four Points Bulletin

Travels north, east, south, and west of our Oceanside home base.

Butterfly Farms in Encinitas was established in 2012 out of concern for the decline of native butterflies. This nonprofit is dedicated to education, conservation and research of native pollinators. In their nursery, they raise and sell plants important to pollinators. In their laboratory, they raise native butterflies, some of which they release into their vivarium, …

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Just a few blocks south of Oceanside’s Welcome Bell and a few blocks east of the Pacific Ocean, 60,000 visitors a year enter through the doors of Oceanside’s official California Welcome Center. This year visitors are in for a real treat, the Welcome Center got an amazing facelift. It’s new, modern appearance focuses on Oceanside’s …

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Palm Springs will always be one of our favorite cities to visit, a city where you feel much further away from home than you actually are. You know a city is amazing when your favorite California journalist, Huell Howser, who has publicly explored the whole state, buys a home in the area. Downtown Palm Springs …

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Anyone who has been to the Living Desert Zoo and Botanical Gardens can understand why the zoo was voted one of the top ten zoos in North America (in both categories, as best zoo and as best botanical garden). It is also an Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited facility, so with our yearly …

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Oceanside Unfiltered at the Oceanside Museum of Art is a photography exhibition that features local artists and their unfiltered perspective on Oceanside. The exhibit wasn’t the only local art on display, Wild7s Freestyle Krew performed, Deezy Hollow rapped, DJ Grande spun music, and the Members Only Car Club lined Pier View Way with classic lowriders …

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San Diego Botanic Garden’s mission statement is “we garden to create, share, and apply plant wisdom to our world.” The gardens give people of all ages the opportunity to be impressed by mother nature, to walk amongst plants rarely seen in Southern California. Their hundreds of Botanic Garden gardeners are passionate about plants, evidenced by …

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