Cabrillo Point National Monument is located (perhaps not surprisingly) at Cabrillo Point, the southernmost tip of Loma Point near San Diego. It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to set foot on the West Coast of North America (at least, as far as we know) in A.D. 1542. The park includes a number of items including old coastal artillery installations, a national cemetery, a lighthouse (not open when we were there), a monument to Cabrillo - and, of course, the Pacific coastline, which is where we spent our time there.
The rock layers were amazing:
As was the power of the ocean:
A natural mosaic rivaling anything the Greeks and Romans ever made:
Up the coast:
And over the coast:
The monument to Cabrillo:
Looking off the point. You can see Tijuana in the distance:
Back towards San Diego and the Naval Air Station:
Nice pictures of California. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Michael.
DeleteI enjoy California the State very much. California the government entity, not so much.
Some very neat photos TB, boy....Greece, Turkey and now Southern Cal, quite the travelogue going........:) Grew up myself in a city on the westernmost tip of Lake Superior, worked a few years in a city on Lake Michigan and ended now a stone's throw from the Mississippi and two blocks from a small lake....huh....go figure.
ReplyDeleteNylon12, for a guy who professes to not like traveling and is a homebody, I do a shocking amount of it. Part of it is due to a wife that likes to travel, part of it s that is just the way the world often seems to be.
DeleteIn what remains one of life's shocks to me, I grew up in a small town and fully expected to live in one but have really only ever lived (after college) in large cities and suburbs. Life is indeed stranger than fiction.
I had to look in my photo archive but it was 13 years and 3 months ago when I was standing on nearby spots. I remember looking at Tijuana and thinking I should spend a day across the border, having never crossed that border, and even started driving towards it the following day. But at that time, there was (and perhaps still is) a lot of violence with some tourists getting killed in the crossfire, so I stopped, turned the car around and went back to San Diego to do something else.
ReplyDeleteEd, many years ago - likely the mid-90's - my parents and my sister and The Outdoorsman drove to Tijuana and walked around. As the story went, they effectively got lost and wandered some back streets before they made it back out to the tourist section. No way one could do that now.
DeleteIn one of the life's little oddities, I have been to Asia, Europe, and Central America but never to Canada or Mexico.
We left East County, San Diego the 1st week of 2015. Love So. Cal., but there is no escaping the Commie government, even sensible people OBEY. They (leftist legislators) never met a tax, permitting scheme or anti-freedom law that they didn't like. We moved to Tennessee, a free state. NO REGERTS!! ha ha
ReplyDeleteT_M - It is unfortunate really: California has such great potential (and outside of the cities, a very different population) but the government seems intent on both running into the ground financially while extracting every cent they can in the process.
DeleteI cannot find the reference, but I recall from earlier this year an article saying that the bulk of California's taxes are paid by 50,000 or so individuals - all high wealth, to be sure. Remove a large enough percentage of those and they will have very significant financial issues.
Sounds like a great place to visit. Having never been to that part of the world, I find the photos really interesting. The history too.
ReplyDeleteLeigh, the Pacific Coast really has some glorious views and amazing history.
DeleteI have been to San Diego several times for work and pleasure. It is a pleasant place to visit (as many urban areas can be), but I would never want to live there.