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[JCZ]

All of these are interesting and unique in their own way.  But how these sculptors were able to get the detail on the inside of the outter shell is most interesting.  In this sculptor, each of the long narrow windows has it's own different and unique sculptor inside.



































More miscellaneous sulptors....








This one shows some of the planning, detail and prep that goes in to one of these sculptors even before they start...

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This one is by the Sand Castle Man.  He's usually found daily on the beach at the Del Coronado Hotel here in Coronado.  He calls this scultor "The Wedding Crasher".....obviously referring to the large dragon wrapped around the back of the castle.























Of course everybody will recognize these two carichaters from the TV commercials.....



Babe and I met these two wayward birds in person......still claiming to be California fresh chickens.....





and.....San Diego's Metro Transit System had to get in on the act.....

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and time for the little ferry ride back over to the island and our little comfort zone we call home....Coronado.

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Just across the bay from Coronado is the city of San Diego.  San Diego has a number of beach communities within the city limits and La Jolla is one of them.  We went up there and walked the beach hiking trail this morning.  Here's some pics to share....get your hiking shoes on and come on along.....

Kyack tours in La Jolla Cove....

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and another droan.  Seems like we see at least one every time we go to any of the San Diego beaches....















































a flock of pelicans at rest.......

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and here are a couple of water front homes on La Jolla Cove for just a couple million each.......













One of the most difficult things about living here is deciding what to do each weekend.  There's just so many options and many of them are absolutly free.  So we went to the La Jolla beach this morning.

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Coming home, as we started across the Coronado bridge I noticed a lot of activity down below, under the bridge.  It's Chicano Park (it's legal name) in Barrio Logan (also the legal name of this suburb.....mostly an industrial area with lots of ship yards and home to Naval Base San Diego) and they're having a huge car show and street festival.  I got on my motorcycle, changed camera batteries and headed back over the bridge.

These guys and gals get as obsessed on their rides as we do on our motorcycles....some incredable and beautiful rides.  I mean a lot of museum quality rides and very rare cars.  Again, like in Vegas a few weeks ago, there were car clubs represented from all over the west....

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and.......they also get obsessed with their bikes, too.....these two guys told me they rode in from East LA















Barrio Logan has some well known historical murals painted under the Coronado bridge on the support columns.  This is the area where the car show and street festival was held this afternoon.

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This is just one street (this show covered a number of streets in Barrio Logan and Chicano Park) but it gives you a perspective of just how big this thing was....

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Was certainly a nice day.  Tomorrow looks to be equally nice.  For those in the So Cal area tomorrow looking for something to do there's a bit different kind of car show in Coronado (in the heart of Coronado Village), over 400 pre 1973 restored classic, rod and custom cars & trucks, will be Sunday April 26, 10 a.m. 

http://www.ecoronado.com/profiles/blogs/motorcars-on-mainstreet-is-this-042020151105

[ultra98]

Fantastic, nice pics, you live in a amazing place,me and my fam was in San Diego and Coronado 3 years ago and we loved it

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Thank you Ultra.  Yes, we have visitors from all over the world on a year around basis.  Met some Scandanavian ladies just today visiting their family members here in Coronado but most are just visiting.  You can visit Coronado year around and be pretty sure that you're going to have great weather.

As I mentioned in my post yesterday, this car show is entirely different.  I got there early so I was able to get some shots of these cars on the roll.....

Take a stroll down memory lane with us and see if these rides jog any faded memories for you.....





















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And a big block Mopar Challenger........with a monster hemi








and a couple very clean Mercury Montclairs...








This  1950 Cady is an unrestored and original with just under 60,000 original miles.....most of them put on my the current owner.  He's made several long distance round trips from San Diego to Reno, San Francisco and Las Vegas.  He's owned it for seven years.





This was a very interesting set up.  He had a photo album of both the car and the trailer/boat showing what they looked like when he first got them and the progress of the body off restoration for both.  The camper has a turtle shell lid in the back that serves as the cooking area and the top is actually a boat that lifts off and flips over to get into an alpine lake.