Took my mom to the San Diego Zoo this morning on the first day of it’s now annual Festival of Flight days. This year, along with the usual bird displays and presentations, the Zoo incorporated the military’s version of flight into it’s displays, including the Centennial of Naval Aviation and volunteers from the USS Midway. …
Category: San Diego
Nov 08 2011
Funani And Adhama Have Been Chosen
One of my personal favorite photos from the San Diego Zoo was chosen to be added to a photo website in England called SLR-Lens which has a blogpost showing what they consider to be the best wildlife photos of 2011. My photo is of Funani, a female River Hippo, next to her recently born son, Adhama, …
Nov 07 2011
Saw The Whole Zoo
Spent the entire day at the San Diego Zoo with my high school friend, Barbara. It was empty enough where we actually walked a good 90% of the park and saw almost all the animals. Two new exhibited animals I saw were a Maned Wolf and a Leopard. Half the guests there were from Green …
Nov 03 2011
Back At SeaWorld
Went walking at SeaWorld with my mom which is something we temporarily stopped doing during the summer months because of the crowds. Saw some interesting animals, not the usual, expected kind: three five-month Arctic Fox siblings, a five-year old Bearded Dragon named Pancake, a European Glass Lizard that was also around five-years old and a …
Oct 28 2011
Best Sunset This Month…So Far
Had us another one of them amazing San Diego sunsets this evening. Never get tired of ’em.
Oct 26 2011
137th SDNHM Annual Meeting And Open House
Took my nephew Stephen to this year’s Annual Meeting and Open House at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Started off a little boring with a rather lackluster meeting and some dry cookies, but then got much better once we took the tour three floors below to the snakes and lizards specimens, up to the second …
Oct 16 2011
Walk Along Rose Marie Starns
Went for a truncated evening walk along Rose Marie Starns South Shores Park at Mission Bay with the Tapias. It quickly got cold and windy once the sun set. Saw two cool things: first, someone was flying a glowing radio-controlled plane above us, and second, a satellite also flew over us as we got back …
Oct 15 2011
Animal Ambassadors at the Zoo
Attended another tweet-up at the San Diego Zoo for a presentation by Zoo Ambassador Rick Schwartz of three of the zoo’s animal ambassadors. First up was Isa the fossa, followed by Phu (pronounced foo) Ket the binturong and finishing up with Rio the Amazon parrot. These tweet-ups are always very enjoyable and informative.
Oct 11 2011
Guided Tour In Balboa Park
Went for an hour-long free guided walking tour in Balboa Park this morning with my mom. Ranger Ryan took us to a few spots and talked to us about the architectural and floral history dating back to the very early days of what was first called City Park before the 1915 Panama-California Exposition.
Oct 07 2011
Walk And Dinner On Coronado
Went for an evening walk with the Tapias from Coronado’s Tidelands Park up to the Old Ferry Landing where we had dinner at Lil’ Piggy’s Bar-B-Q and then walked back to Tidelands Park. I had an incredible Texas Potato with pulled pork and other fixings for my dinner.
Oct 03 2011
Walking IB
Went for a two+ mile sunset walk with the Tapias along the marshes of Imperial Beach. Lots of other walkers and bikers along this striped mini-road of a walkway towards Silver Strand. Stitch had two poops and Lilo just one, all three of which I was entrusted to collect. ( i b p …
Oct 02 2011
Evening Walk Along Mission Bay
Went on a three mile walk this evening at Rose Starns Park just south of SeaWorld with the four Tapias. It was a beautiful San Diego dusk and getting out into ocean air and the setting sun felt very refreshing. ( w a l k i n g p i c s )
Sep 28 2011
Plaza De Panama: My Photos
The Plaza de Panama Project in Balboa Park used eleven of my photos (the ones outlined in red) in their Facebook album of the first public Walking Tour they gave, which I attended. Yay me.
Sep 20 2011
Wyatt Earp In San Diego
Attended a lecture presentation at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park this evening by Garner A. Palenske, author of the just released book (we got the very first copies) “Wyatt Earp In San Diego: Life After Tombstone.” First I ran into him in the bathroom before the lecture and we talked Earp for …
Sep 20 2011
Walking Balboa Park
Had an hour between the Natural History Museum closing and the Wyatt Earp presentation this evening so I walked around Balboa Park taking pictures at the Museum of Man, the Alcazar Gardens and the “Laguna de las Flores” in front of the Botanical Building. There are more than 20,000 trees in Balboa Park, some which …
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