Tourists in San Diego

On Thursday, we had an easy drive from Yuma along Interstate 8, and pulled into Santee Lakes Recreation Preserve by mid-afternoon. (See http://www.santeelakes.com   for details of this interesting park.)

We are not in San Diego, itself, but are within 20 miles of the bay.

Friday was our time to play tourist; neither of us has ever been here.  We took a 2-hour boat tour of the bay, followed by a walk to Seaport Village.  The US Navy and Marines have a huge presence here and we saw lots of Sky Hawk helicoptors. 

   USS Midway Aircraft Carrier

VJ day

It was nice to see a tribute to Bob Hope as well.  He was performing for the troops here.

 Bob Hope Entertaining the Troops 

Before going home, we started part of the self-guided driving tour around the bay, to Point Loma where we found the Cabrillo National Monument.  How many of our readers know who Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was, and why we have a National Monument in his honor?

 Bob and Paige on hill overlooking San Diego

 A view of the harbor and a cruise ship from our tour boat

Paige also got to see a surfer and realized she had never seen one before!  A first at her age!

Surfer

We'll be going back tomorrow for some more tourist stuff.  Maybe we'll even find a yarn shop??