World in the sea

Matthew Lickona, who with wife Deirdre and amazing brood hosted us for a wonderful evening (mousse! poetry! pizza! Brio!) on Tuesday at their fantastic (more adjectives!) spread, clued us into the highly educational value of assisting the feeding process of the sea anenomes at the Cabrillo tide pools.

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Old Point Loma Lighthouse. The usual American excellence in park/historical monument work on display, here as well as at the visitor’s center for the Cabrillo monument. Well done. God bless the enthusiasts, preservationists, historians, archaeologists, professional and “amateur” alike.

Taking the trolley, along with the other homeless of San Diego, which was nice.

Early this past summer, we spent a few days in New York City and toured the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. The most anticipated point by all was the submarine – but sadly, there’s a minimum height requirement which one of our party did not meet. There was a bit of  disappointment.  Well, here we are in San Diego, so the Maritime Museum seemed like a good bet – which it was – and thank goodness, they let people under 4 feet tall on the submarines (one research and one Russian battle sub – seen above).

In the steam ferryboat Berkely, a museum about all sorts of San Diego-related boat business, from aircraft carriers to tuna fishing – this is a model of a chapel from a tuna fishing boat. Back in the day, all of the tuna fishing boats had chapels aboard for the Italians who owned and worked them. “But my dad’s boat didn’t have one,” said the old guy who decided to be our docent. “He was Norwegian.”

(What he told us was that this display was actually a sales model used by the religious goods people to show the boat owners what they had)

Thankful? Trying.