The world’s largest all-women surf event, 16th annual Nissan Surfer Girl Pro, is back at Oceanside pier. Over a hundred of the top women surfers compete to become a Super Girl, in a sport dominated by males (only 20% of surfers are females). These incredible women surfers have an opportunity over a three day period …
The San Diego Zoo is an accredited botanical garden. The zoo’s mission to safeguard wildlife doesn’t stop at animals but includes the plants that animals depend on. There are 700,000 plants at the zoo and forty horticulturalists that care for them (at both the zoo and the Safari Park, as well as off-site farms that …
The San Luis Rey Mission was founded in 1798, the eighteenth of twenty one Spanish missions built in Alta California. The current church is the third one built on site, constructed in 1815. The mission was nearly destroyed after changing hands over the course of forty years, from Spain to Mexico to Luiseño Native Americans …
North Shore Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino National Forest was calling our names this long Labor Day weekend. It is a touch more than a two hour drive from our Oceanside home base, but it smells like pines, and has cool breezes at 7,000 feet elevation. We have explored Yellow Post sites in …
In 1969, San Diego voters passed (by an unprecedented 76%) a six million dollar bond to build the Wild Animal Park (now the Safari Park). The goal was to bring visitors closer to nature, in Savanah habitats that one may experience on an African Safari. When the park opened in 1972, 3,000 people came to …