About La Jolla's La Jolla Cove

Speechless Sunday - Seal At La Jolla Childrens Pool

Eighty years ago, Ellen Browning Scripps, La Jolla philanthropist, had a sea wall built at Casa Beach to provide protection from the waves so children could swim at this location. Since then, local Harbor Seals have really taken to this premier piece of La Jolla real estate and every season have their babies here. The seals are a tourist (and locals) favorite and to protect them during pupping season there is a barrier rope put up so people can't come to close to the seals and their vulnerable pups. This season's rope was just removed yesterday.

Here is a photo I took last fall, only one seal playing in the water at La Jolla Cove but I really liked the sun on the water effect. Even though I have lived here for years the natural beauty of the region still awes me!

I've fortunate that I've visited everything along the Pacific Coast from Tijuana, Mexico, to Vancouver, British Columbia, and the most beautiful spot in my opinion, is right here in La Jolla in San Diego County:

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Sunny Jim's cave in La Jolla

Over in La Jolla is one of the few sea caves in the United States that is also accessible by land.

This is Sunny Jim's cave, named by Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, way back in the late 1920s. Baum lived in Coronado and La Jolla for many years, and there is a Wizard of Oz museum in Coronado.

Access to the cave from land is through a tunnel dug by hand through a hundred feet or so of sandstone. There are 144 steps leading from The Cave Store above to the cave below at sea level:

The steps and walls are very wet, so if you go, wear some good shoes and be sure to hold the handrails. Also watch your head because headroom is limited in some areas.

Once you finish touring Sunny Jim's cave, walk over to La Jolla Cove where you can see a rookery of harbor seals. On your way, be sure to stop here and there and see all the other wildlife between the cave and the Cove.

Of course, there are lots of seagulls:

It's also one of the best places in San Diego County to see and watch lots of pelicans:

You might even see some harbor seals that have broken away from the rookery. The pelicans and seagulls don't seem to mind:

On light pole #9, you can see an osprey. This is his light pole. I'm sure some day he will leave, but it seems like he has been perched there forever:

I'm not sure what this wildlife is:

Anyone?

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If you're looking for a great real estate agent in San Diego, well,
let me Google one for you.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

♪♫♫♫♪

Try Russel Ray Photos for inexpensive, royalty-free photos.

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Children's pool and harbor seals at La Jolla Cove

As much as I love the San Diego Zoo, it's always amazing to see wildlife in the wild, doing what wildlife do, and right here in La Jolla, at the Children's pool at La Jolla Cove, is one of the nation's few seal rookeries, and the only one in San Diego:

This area was conveyed to the City of San Diego by Ellen Browning Scripps way back in 1931, a gift that was officially accepted by an act of the California legislature. It was supposed to be kept in perpetuity as a children's pool, basically for the rich people of La Jolla. However, in the early 1990s, the harbor seals moved in and claimed it, if not as their own, well, at least partially theirs.

After over a decade of lawsuits concerning the Children's Pool and the harbor seals, state legislation was passed last year to put control of the area in the hands of the City of San Diego, notwithstanding the gift sanctions by Mrs. Scripps.

Harbor seals are protected by the Endangered Species Act. Unfortunately, the City has not decided what to do about the harbor seal rookery, so at the present time, there is simply a rope up from mid-December to late February, pupping season, to prevent people from harassing the seals, which they tend to do for some strange reason.

If you have a chance, though, stop by to see the harbor seals. It's not very often where you get to watch unusual wildlife in the wild, frolicking and enjoying the sun, in the midst of a major metropolitan area.

The harbor seals have become a great tourist attraction for San Diego County, certainly much more so than watching some rich children play in the surf, espescially when those children can either play in their own backyard pools or go anywhere else along San Diego's miles and miles of beaches.

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If you're looking for a great real estate agent in San Diego, well,
let me Google one for you.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

♪♫♫♫♪

Try Russel Ray Photos for inexpensive, royalty-free photos.

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Speechless Sunday (with a little bit of text)

Over near downtown La Jolla is the Children's Pool, which has one of Southern California's few harbor seal rookeries. It currently is pupping season for the harbor seals, so I went a couple of days ago to see what pups I could find.

This little one was having a splash (pun intended) in the water.

It was a very low tide, so lots of rocks that are normally underwater were exposed, leaving lots of places for the harbor seals to lay out in the cool water and soak up a little sun. 

♪♫♫♫♪

If you're looking for a great real estate agent in San Diego, well,
let me Google one for you.

I'm available 24/7, so feel free to contact me by phone or email.

Jim Frimmer, Realtor
Century 21 Award Mission Valley
California DRE License #01458572
619-729-5701
jimfrimmer@century21award.com
Mission Valley Condos Information

♪♫♫♫♪

Try Russel Ray Photos for inexpensive, royalty-free photos.

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