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I'm not sure what button I hit this time.

We arrived in San Diego as scheduled on the 27th.  Crossing the Coronado Bridge was an experience, the guard rails appeared to be just those movable barriers you see in work areas along the freeway, the coach was so tall I couldn't see any barriers at all, the bridge is quite tall to allow Navy ships to pass under.  Fiddler's Cove is the Navy RV and Marina located along the Silver Strand.  We are on the bay side of the highway and the state park is on the ocean side.  They have a very strict rule, no check-ins until 2:00,  since we hit the road before the break of dawn we got there about 10:30.  We were shoo'd out to the outer parking lot until 2.  Still can't figure that one out, it's not like they have to change sheets and clean the bathroom.  The dog park was out in the parking lot so we took a "cooped-up" Luci out to run.   We met Molly, a young golden retriever and her people Barney and Sheila (from Riverside, Ca).  That still gave me time for a much needed nap.  Gary woke me up at 2:00 so we could check in.  Our spot is right on the water, we would have liked to have pulled straight in but the hook-ups were on the left and our cords etc were not long enough to stretch to the other side.  There is a great multi-use trail that runs all along the highway from Imperial Beach to Coronado that has a string of geo caches along the way, we picked up 5 the first day.  Across the road is Navy property where they train Navy Seals.  After dark we started hearing gun shots and helicopters.  We found out it is "hell week", supposedly they train 19 hours a day.

Friday we took the Coronado pedestrian ferry across the bay to San Diego to visit the Midway, now a museum ship on the waterfront.  (where else?)  The Midway, an aircraft carrier, was commissioned a week after the end of WWII.  At the time it was the biggest ship in the world, it was even too big to go through the Panama Canal, it served 47 years, being decommissioned after the end of Operation Desert Storm. We walked the waterfront a while then decided we should get back to let Luci out.  When we got to my Jeep, there was a note on the windshield.  A person had scraped my car, she was nice enough to leave a note with her phone number.    For dinner we went to an Irish Pub in San Diego (near the airport) with Barney and Sheila, they have been coming to Fiddler's Cover for years, they only live a couple of hours away.  The food and company were great.  We ended the evening here in our coach for nightcaps, when the coach started to rock we decided we'd had enough. It was the 5.1 earthquake that hit LA and we felt it clear down here.  The "war" across the highway was raging again, no wonder the Seals are so tough, the training must be "hell".

Saturday our arduous trip must have caught up with us, we hung around the RV park most of the day, we did go for a bike ride into Coronado picking up caches along the way.  Later in the evening we drove to North Island Air base to check out where the commissary and exchange were.

Sunday we went to Dog Beach, the furthest north you can go before running into the naval base property.  Luci went psycho, sensory overload Gary said.  She chased balls into the surf never seeming to get tired, she reminded me of a kid on a sugar high.  Gary finally had to take her off the beach.

Monday we had errands to run, we needed to get an estimate on the repair to my bumper, run to the post office and go to the base for groceries.  Gary bought a Chief's decal to put on the windshield and a license plate holder that says Chief Petty Officer.

I woke up this morning to pouring rain and wind, I just rolled over and put the covers over my head.  It had been forecast so it was no surprise and was short lived.  We went to Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography UCSD in La Jolla later in the morning.  A visit there engages kids and adults alike educating about the environment and the diversity of underwater creatures.  I learned that the female sea horse deposits her eggs in the males abdomen, he then carries and delivers the babies.  As it should be!  We had lunch at a brew pub in downtown Coronado afterwards walked down to the waterfront.  It turned out to be a beautiful day.