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:
