| La Jolla has been called the Monte Carlo of | | | | participating or just people watching. |
| Southern California. It teems with life and | | | | A visit to The Cave Store affords visitors the |
| surprises from fine dining restaurants perched | | | | opportunity to descend a 100 year old stairway, |
| atop jagged cliffs to indulgent soft sand beaches, | | | | into a manmade tunnel, down into the fascinating |
| year-round vacation sunshine and watercolor | | | | and mysterious Sunny Jim Cave - the largest of |
| sunsets over the Pacific Ocean. This article lists | | | | several ocean caves in La Jolla Cove. The cave's |
| five things that you should not miss when visiting | | | | first owner, Sunny Jim, hired two Chinese laborers |
| this gem in the crown of America's Finest City. | | | | in the early 1900's to dig this underground tunnel |
| Children's Pool (850 Coast Boulevard) was originally | | | | down to the cave. Using only picks and shovels, |
| designed as a safe place for children to wade into | | | | they carried all the dirt out by hand. In the 1910's, |
| the ocean; it's now home to dozens of wild | | | | the only way the public could get to the cave |
| Harbor Seals and their pups. Many consider the | | | | was by lowering themselves down a rope. Today, |
| seals to be one of the most fun sights in La Jolla | | | | you can take 145 stairs from The Cave Store. |
| because the seals are so up-close and personal. A | | | | Sunny Jim Cave is the only sea cave in California |
| cement walkway allows visitors to walk out over | | | | that you can enter from a stairway. |
| the ocean while waves and surf crash around | | | | Be sure to take a drive up Nautilus Street to the |
| them. The walkway provides a wonderful vantage | | | | pinnacle of the city, the top of Mount Soledad. Dr. |
| from which to enjoy the antics of the Harbor | | | | Seuss and his wife Audrey lived for years in the |
| Seals basking and playing just a few feet away. | | | | Seuss house on this mountain. From the park at |
| La Jolla Cove is situated along a bay sheltered | | | | the peak you can see San Clemente Island 65 |
| from the ocean's surge. Its soft sandy beach | | | | miles west in the blue Pacific, North County |
| offers great sun bathing, swimming and surfing; | | | | beaches to the north and the San Diego |
| the clear waters along the offshore reefs provide | | | | downtown skyline and the Mexican border beyond |
| excellent snorkeling and scuba diving opportunities. | | | | to the south. The view is simply spectacular at |
| In the summer and autumn months the surf is | | | | night. The site is well known for the controversy |
| gentle, the water warms into the 70s, and the | | | | generated by the Easter Cross war memorial that |
| beaches are busy with swimmers, scuba divers | | | | towers above the peak. There is no admission |
| and surfers making it a great place for | | | | charge, the park is always open. |