Mission Bay Scenes, 2022

We were six weeks this year on Mission Bay, in San Diego, at Campland on the Bay, a large privately-owned campground on the Bay. We were busy most of the time, planning future travels, maintaining the camper, and getting upwards of 15,000 steps a day in preparation for future adventures. We confined ourselves entirely to foot travel, in support of the exercise regimen, but also because we did not want to go in anywhere with Omicron surging most of January. We were thus lousy tourists, and someday we'll have to come back to San Diego and visit some of its worthy attractions and cultural treasures. Someday. In the meantime, we have arrangements and reservations for visits to Rome, Florence, London, Paris, and assorted points thereabouts for the summer....for Berlin, Prague and Vienna for the fall...and for New Zealand in the winter. As usual nowadays, everything is conditional, and refundable, to a point. But we're hopeful.

We enjoyed our time on Mission Bay again and certainly can recommend it, for the weather mostly, but also for the laid back and easy going culture. 

Our campsite, N21, at Campland on the Bay

One of my favorite trees is the Pohutukawa...the New Zealand
Christmas tree...native to the North Island, but nowadays 
spread all over the world, especially California; memo to self:
do not park under Pohutukawas when blooming

Our favorite walk, 2-3 times a week, was to the ocean at Pacific
Beach, a bit over a mile away, along Pacific Beach Boulevard;
a beautifully landscaped island on the boulevard held this secluded
bench, where we stopped to rest coming and going

Contemporary architecture on the boardwalk; rents for $8k a
night, each floor

Pacific Beach, looking toward the pier, on a week day in January

Back on the Bay, Sail Bay, a beach artist/architect at work

Para-sailing on Sail Bay

On the east side of the bay, at Mission Bay Park...strummin',
pluckin', and fiddlin'...

On Pacific Beach Boulevard, a real Woody

Everything's up to date in Pacific Beach (ATM inside)

Everywhere you look, flora of interest

Thai peanut curry, with locally-sourced cilantro

Thus

Jade plants thrive in this climate and are used for all kinds of
landscaping; this one had trunks nearly a foot in diameter

Alas, we did not get to Mexico this trip

But we did get to the top of one of the eastern hills one day, with
this view of part of Mission Bay and the sea beyond

More weird plants

Back on the beach, looking at the regatta

Woody's on the board walk, where we often had lunch

Most ubiquitous of the flora

Precious little is left of the wetlands--they're now the bay and
its assorted landforms; but many in San Diego yearn for their
return and celebrate what little is left

Thus, one Saturday

From the campground across to the celebration, encompassing
most of what is left of the wetlands

Us, there, then