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San Diego- La Jolla                        SAN DIEGO COAST                                                                             P38 & F18 AIRCRAFT 125’ - 135’ Adv. Two wrecked fighter
                             Underwater Park                                                                                                                       aircraft in deep water straight off rocky beach (coordinates
                                                                              Mini Map & Kelp Forest Creatures                                                     unknown). P38 at 125’, F18 at 135’. P-38 was ditched in 1943.
                            Scripps Institution                                       Identification Guide                                                         F18 date is unknown.
                            of Oceanography
                                                                                                      Visit Franko at                                              TORREY PINES 35’ - 67’ Int. - Adv. Usually a boat dive. Two
       La Jolla Shores                                                                                                                                             artificial reefs, Reef #1 at 32053.20’N, 117015.80’W, is 67’
                 Marine Room                                                            www.franksomaps.com                                                        deep and has 1000 tons of quarry rock. Reef #2 at 32053.58N,
                                                               5                                                                                                   117015.58’W, is 44’deep and has 3000 tons of quarry rock. In-
       La Jolla Cove                            “THE MAP”          52                                                                                              habited by rockfish, halibut and crabs.
                                             (at Kellog Park)
              Boomer Beach                                                                                                                                         BLACK’S BEACH - Vicious surf when big, may be the best
                                                                                                                                                                   beachbreak in California. Best in W, NW or SW swell, knee-high
        Children’s Pool      LA JOLLA                                                                                                                              to triple overhead. Surf may be up in any season, but winter is
       Hospital Point                                                                                                                                              best with E wind. Sandy bottom.

Windansea Beach                                                                                                                                                    BIG ROCK 10’ - 30’ Beg.- Int. Enter at Hermosa Terrace Park.
                                                                                                                                                                   Rocky reefs and kelp. Invertebrates include scallops and octopi.
       Common Dolphin                                                                          CLAIREMONT                                                          rockfish, halibut and bat rays.
                                                                                                    MESA
                         PACIFIC BEACH                                                                                                                             BIRD ROCK to PB POINT 5’ - 25’ Int. Dive boat site or shore ac-
                                                                                                               805                                                 cess down steep cliff. Sandy and shallow with rock piles and
                                                                                                                                                                   a big kelp forest. All kinds of kelp forest creatures, including
                                                                                                                                                        15         lobsters, halibut, barracuda, halfmoon, lingcod and rockfish.

                MISSION BEACH                                                                      163                 GRANTVILLE

       Yukon                                     Mission Bay                                                   SERRA
                                                                                                               MESA
                                                              Sea      LINDA VISTA
                                                            World
       “Wreck Alley”                  NOSC                                                     Mission Valley       8
                                      Tower
                     Ruby E

                         OCEAN BEACH                                                  HILLCREST             San
                                                                                        5                  Diego
                            Sunset Cliffs                                  San Diego
                                                                        International                       Zoo
                                                 ROOSEVELT-                  Airport
                                                 FLINTRIDGE            Lindbergh Field                       Balboa
                                                                                                               Park

                     Migrating                                         San Diego Bay               SAN DIEGO                                                805
             California Gray Whale
       Southward late Fall & Winter,                                                   The Midway                                                   15
             Northward in Spring
                                                                         NORTH
                                                                       U.S. Naval
                                                                       Air Station

                                                                            ISLAND CORONADO                                                             NATIONAL
                                                                                                                                                            CITY
                                                                       Coronado Island
                    Point Loma Kelp Bed
                                                                                                           San Diego Bay
       Cabrillo National Monument
                                  Point Loma

                                                                                                                                                        5

                                                                                                           Chula Vista Nature Center                        CHULA
                                                                                                   4 Silver Strand                                          VISTA

                                                                                   SCALE                   State Beach
                                                               01 2 3

                                                                                       Miles
                                                                         012 34

                                                                                   Kilometers

State

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