The San Diego Traveler

Welcome to the October 20, 2008 issue of The San Diego Special Edition! It’s great to see so many of our favorite bloggers back this month, as well as some new voices joining us. The variety of these articles and blogs is wonderful, and really shows the breadth of the San Diego experience. Have a great read.

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This month we start with Larry Hogue, who presents Bighorn Sheep Are Counting On You posted at DesertBlog, describing it as a post about threats to southern California’s wild bighorn sheep. If you’d like to get involved and help:
“You still have time — …read more

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Going through this week’s Flickr photos, I came across some beautiful new images of San Diego that deserve some attention:

Be sure to click on the images to get a larger view of these photos, and thanks to these talented photographers for sharing their work.
Photo #1 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/nchill4×4/2794285937/Photo #2 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/savor_soaps/2794835955/Photo #3 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottandrenee/2795811366/Photo #4 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/pimoo/2791153753/Photo #5 credit: Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/2794853593/

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On Saturday (March 1), colorful kites will fill the skies of Ocean Beach at the 60th Annual Ocean Beach Kite Festival and Craft Fair. This is known as the oldest kite festival in the United States.
This event offers carnival rides for children, home-made crafts, the Ocean Beach Kite Parade, music, and free hot dogs, popcorn, and punch. Come and construct your own kite in the morning, and enter it in the best kite contest at 1pm.
The Kiwanis Club of Ocean Beach will host this festival at Ocean Beach Recreation Center and Ocean Beach Elementary School, on Santa Monica Avenue (between …read more

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Hearing about the 15-foot waves that were expected yesterday along the coast, we headed for the beach to see if we could bring some of that back to you. Well, we picked the wrong beach, at least to see the 15-footers.
Ocean Beach reported 15-foot waves  around 3 yesterday afternoon, while we were looking at the gorgeous views from Sunset Cliffs (a bit further south).
Sunset Cliffs Park lies on 68 acres of bluffs and walking paths high above the Pacific. There’s a long staircase that

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