San Diego: Chula Vista Digs

San Diego: Chula Vista digs

Our first sunrise in Chula Vista, looking across the neighboring marina from rv park.

Compared to boon-docking in Borrego Springs, where we had no services, the Chula Vista RV Park is luxurious.  We have electricity, pressure water, showers, pool, hot tub, small gym, even cable TV, something we don’t have at home.  Not necessarily better but very very different.  Since it looks like we’ll be in San Diego for a while and there’s so much to do I’ll try to post a few different pages before it gets overwhelming and I just forget about it.

The trolley is a 12 minute walk and provides access to all of San Diego.  We’ve been here about a month and have been to an IMAX movie and toured several museums including the Air & Space, San Diego Art, Model Railroad and Timken Art, all of which and more are in Balboa Park. We’ve biked or more often walked the Embarcadero, Little Italy, Gaslight District, as well as a couple of beach walks.  We've been to Tijuana, toured the USS Midway, sailed out into the ocean, checked out Coronado, Mission Beach, and the La Jolla area.  I'll post these on separate pages, stay tuned.

Chula Vista RV park as we sail by on our way out into San Diego Bay & beyond.

Our location as viewed across entry channel to marina.  The Coronado bridge and downtown San Diego in background. 

View north to SD from beach adjacent to our location.

View south from same spot. These photos are all of San Diego Bay.

Sly devils, these egrets are quite the fisherbirds.  They go into the shallows and wiggle their toes, simulating worms, to lure in a tasty fish dinner.

Bird of Paradise plants are ubiquitous around the rv park and elsewhere.

Scoots seem to graze in the morning but spend most of their time in the water.

Shore birds are also plentiful, a welcome change from the desert.

Mallards, Scoots, and my favorite, probably because we don't have any home, the Pelican.