The Coronado Beach at San Diego is really beautiful, though we could not spend too much time there…

Here’s the namesake Coronado Hotel, dominating the beach:

We crossed the Coronado Bridge, with its lovely view of the Marina and downtown San Diego: The Guard House is itself a beautiful structure: I got the tourist trolley going past an antique house on the waterfront: Cycling is very popular, and I love the children's trailers, too: There are apparently lots of people who walk around with metal detectors...they find a lot of cans, some coins, but are perhaps hoping for buried treasure! There were gulls everywhere; in the air: On the sand: House sparrows, too...on the ground: and in the palm trees lining the Marina...can you see the female with nesting material, so well camouflaged against the tree? There were other things in the air, too; this kite... which reminded me of this one at Creve Coeur Lake Fighters thundering overhead (Miramar Air Force Base is close by) : Here's a 360 degree view of the beach from our vantage point:

The grasses and the rocks were themselves so colourful and picturesque!