The San Diego Harbor area is quite beautiful. It's the US Navy's second largest port (after Norfolk VA) and there many ships there: aircraft carriers, supply ships, hospital ships, Coast Guard ships, armed frigates and cruisers. We took a 2-hour harbor cruise and were able to see them pretty closely. The USS Ronald Reagan is the Navy's newest, largest and most technologically up to date aircraft carrier. It holds 5800 people and is nuclear powered. Needless to say, it's immense. There are lots of Navy facilities in the harbor, such as dry docks, ship and helicopter maintenance, even a shipbuilding dock where the USS Amelia Earhart is being built. We also saw a couple of dolphins and a whole bunch of sea lions sunning themselves on a dock.
Later we took the ferry to Coronado Island. I wanted to see the Hotel Del Coronado, which I had seen more than 20 years ago. It was the set for the movie "Some Like it Hot," and is a gorgeous 19th century hotel. It was the first hotel west of the Mississippi to be wired for electricity--it had its own generator. It's a stunning hotel, and the beach is a perfect, white sand beach (see the movie and you'll see the beach).
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