California

I had the fortune to go to cali last week for work to visit MCAS Miramar and MCLB Barstow.  When I left DC on Sunday afternoon, it was almost 80, sunny, and warm.  When I landed in San Diego on Sunday night, it was 40 and raining.  Brrrr.  Besides the fact that I was totally unprepared for the unseasonably cool weather in CA, it was a great trip. 
We had just a free afternoon on Wednesday, and went to Point Lomah National Park - see my picasa web album:


Point Lomah was amazing, though also chilly.  First off, it's just an AMAZING view of the ocean and San Diego.  There's also a light house, a whale watching outlook (we were almost there during the right time of year, but we didn't see anything), and tide pools down by the water.  The tide pools were so fun.  We found all of these anemones that were really clever.  I'm going to butcher the biology here, but they're sticky & they gather a bunch of shell fragments on their surface to camoflage themselves.  And when you touch them they close up.  So much fun!  And of course, we ate at In-N-Out burger ... animal style!

But, I'm glad to be back.  Looking forward to my next REVA trip.  Stay tuned, it may be somewhere other than cali. :)