About La Jolla's La Jolla Cove

While many people become jealous of what others are able to do, I take what they can do as suggestions of what I myself could actually do.

I think inspiration is a far better emotion than jealousy.

Downtown at Seaport Village, there are often people who can balance rocks. Now I'm not talking about one rock, I'm talking about a big rock on top of a little rock on top of a big rock on top of a medium rock, etc. Seaport Village gets quite windy, but the wind doesn't seem to affect their ability to balance those dadgum (dadgum?) rocks.

Recently I was strolling the La Jolla Cove beach admiring the beach houses when I found one home surrounded by a sea wall with balanced rocks. La Jolla Cove beach also gets windy, as it was this day, but it just doesn't seem to affect balanced rocks. Here are two of them:

While these aren't the most magnificent balanced rocks, with the way the wind was blowing here, I could probably put a rock down on the ground and the wind would have blown it away down the beack.

I think the person who did this is well on his or her way to being able to do something that I cannot. I think I'll just be jealous in this one instance, if that's okay with my readers.

So if you have something mundane to do, like remove all those rocks from your back yard in preparation for doing some landscaping this summer, well, see if you can balance them. Your friends will be impressed, and if you send me some pictures, I'll be jealous of YOU, too!

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This week's blog posts (they will open in a new window)

1. Life series - 57 posts, various dates, most recently on 6/22/09
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7. The Flying Seagulls (slide show) - 6/18/09
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As I said in a previous post, this past week seemed to have been travel week, either to cities far, far away in another galaxy -- 45 or more miles away -- or to the American outback, also known as the boondocks.

One of my inspections was up in La Jolla, where the Pacific Harbor Seals have taken up residence (pictures to come; no I don't inspect seals).

Since it's only natural that I wind up in La Jolla during rush hour -- and rush hour leaving La Jolla has to be the worst in San Diego County -- I took the opportunity to put on my walking shoes and take a long stroll down the beach, way past the Harbor Seals, to see some magnificent beach houses. This was my favorite one:

At first glance, you might think that the wall around this house is the foundation, but it's not. It's the sea wall. If you look carefully, you can see that this house is sitting smack dab (smack dab?) on the beach.

Here are the beach floor entrances for three other beach homes:

During an El Niño year storm, these beach houses sometimes have their first floors flooded (duh). I suspect that their insurance policies have an El Niño rider attached to them, with a pretty good premium, too. After all, if you can get in, so can Mother and Father Nature and their rowdy son, El Niño.

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This Sunday in La Jolla California is a very special day. It's the Tour de Cove.

The Tour de Cove is a significant fund raising event for the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF). Monies raised benefits CAH who helps folks with physical challenge pursue active ifestyle through physical fitness and atheltics. The funds are used to purchase prosthetics (which can cost $15,000), wheelchairs and handcycles (about $2000) for these athletes, many of whom compete locally, nationally and internationally in a host of events.

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The Tour de Cove is held every year at La Jolla Cove, although last year's event had to be canceled becuase of teh fires and concerns about the athletes who were participating in the spin-a-thon as well as the triatholon.

There is a 4 and 1/2 hour spin-a-thon with 100 bikes and krankcycles on the lawn overlooking the beautiful Pacific. Spinners sign up for varying periods of time (e.g., someone spinning for the entire period had to raise $2000 and gets a front row spin bike). Bikes are being provided by Frog's Fitness in Encinitas and Solana Beach. The event runs from 9 until 3:30.

The other fund raising event what has, to date, raised over $16 million, is the San Diego Triathlon Challenge, a half-Ironman distance event; this is the 15th anniversary of this inspiring event which begins with swimming at 8 AM .

The other associated event occuring just before this is the Qualcomm Million Dollar Challenge, which ends on Friday OCtober 24th in La Jolla, although cyclists have the option to also ride a final stage of 55 miles on Sunday over the course used for the San Diego Trathlon.

The Qualcomm Million Dollar Challenge is a 600-mile 7-day journey on bicycle from San Francisco to La Jolla, with each of the participants attempting to raise a minimum of $10,000. The funds raised through this event are being used to "seed a capital campaign for the construction of a Challenged Athletes Foundation headquarters facility, unless otherwise directed by the donor, in which event, such donations will be applied towards the payment of additional handcycles, racing chairs, sports chairs and sports prosthetics for challenged athletes, as well as help subsidize their competition and training expenses." [from the website]

There are all sorts of activities for non-participants, and it's a great way to support all those who are contributing to this amazing event. And of course the scenery along teh oean in La Jolla can't be beat.

Stop by!

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The La Jolla Rough Water Swim starts and finishes at the La Jolla Cove on September 7th. The "Swim" has been a La Jolla summertime tradition since 1916 and has been held every year, exept in 1935 when the San Diego Exposition was sponsored in lieu of the Swim and in 1948 when concerns of Polio forced cancellation. As fate would have it, Jonas Salk spent his last years in La Jolla and founded the Salk Institute that has views of where the Swim is held! The last cancellation was in 1959 when there were unusual shark sightings by the News Media. In 1916 there were 7 men who entered the Swim and today there are over 2,000 competitors. It is an exciting event to watch and even more exciting for the participants who can be seen year round swimming the course and getting ready for this annual La Jolla event. Come out and support the swimmers of all ages from 5 to 85!

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La Jolla Rough Water Swim Event Information - Click Here.

Swimmer's Schedules for Junior Event, Masters Women, Masters Men, Gatorman Championship & Amateur Event - Click Here.

La Jolla Rough Water Swim History - Click Here.

La Jolla Rough Water Swim Course Map - Click Here.