San Diego and the Pacific Ocean

The ocean is a central image. It is the symbolism of a great journey.

View of San Diego Bay crossing the Coronado Bridge

Saturday was busy. When we’re back on the road every day seems to be busy checking the sights in the new area. This time our goal was just a quick peek at the beach and the Pacific Ocean. We also visited the Silver Strand area at Coronado … which is where we are supposed to be moving Sunday morning.

Our first stop was on the Strand at Oceanside. Surfers were riding the waves, hopeful fishermen were lining the pier and sunbathers were busy catching the rays. It was a very active – and beautiful – place to be.

Coronado was next on the agenda. We were off to see the Silver Strand State Beach which is just down the road from the fabulous Hotel del Coronado. After all, this was one place we had seen pictures of and just knew it would be the perfect spot to spend some time. At least that’s what we thought. People were everywhere and I do mean everywhere. Of course, the weather was perfect and it was the weekend. Everyone was out … just everyone. This place was packed. The RVs must have been put into place very carefully because some seemed to have little room between them. It just didn’t appear to be the place for us. And, at $50 a night for dry camping we figured it was a little much for a state park without any hookups.

View of weekend campers at Silver Strand State Park on Coronado!!

Next stop on Coronado was about a mile down the road. This was another small RV park sitting on the San Diego Bay side of the road instead of the ocean side at the edge of the marina. It just reopened for dry camping as it has been closed for renovating. Of course, the road is very narrow at this point so either side would certainly work well. Now we liked this very, very much. It looked perfect to us. So, we’ll see it Sunday.

You know what they say about trash being someone else’s treasure. Obviously, the City of Oceanside believes that your trash is a treasure too. Check out the treasure chest of a trash bin.

We picked up some tourist information from the Welcome Center yesterday. The problem is that most of these tours and outings last almost a full day. Some we'd really like to do but we can't leave Duchess for the period of time we would need to. So, another day and another time we'll come back again. For now we'll just enjoy what we can.