In and Out of the Bay

Another bike ride today. We decided to see if we could bike around Mission Bay. We knew there were good bike paths on part of the way, but the whole ride amounts to 14 miles. We took the clockwise direction, biked out of our house straight to Sail Bay, then biked along the bay bike path as far as we could, that is to the big part at the end of Crown Point. Actually, just before we even got to the park, we had to veer of the bike path because a whole trailer camp had been set up there to service the big speed boat race that's going on in San Diego right now. We stopped for a while to watch the races, they're pretty crazy, they go sooo fast and they're sooo loud!

We biked on some side streets around Campland camp site, up to Grand Avenue, over Rose Creek and then down on a semi bike path that led us onto the path around East Mission Bay. From there there's a perfect path along the bay through one recreational park after the other. I had just not realized there were so many parks in San Diego. But if you wanta have a picnic or a barbecue or just let your kid run around or play, I would say you have quite a choice!

At the end of the East Mission Bay Drive, we crossed the creek that comes out from Mission Valley, came around Fiesta Island and then onto Sea World Drive, along which there is a street bike path but also a wide empty sidewalk. A path goes all around Sea World onto Ingraham, where we crossed the highway before the bridge. We then biked around the marina up to the Mission Bay bridge, where instead of crossing right away we checked out the Fish Market. They vow to have the best Fish and Chips in town and we shared one of those, with a lemonade, to verify their claims. It's one of those ancient, no-frills places that is kinda fun to visit.

Biking over the bridge on West Mission Bay you get a real nice view of the channel (that I by the way sailed out on my last sailing lesson), so we hung out there for a little while, then biked down to the Bahia Hotel and again around the bay back to our starting point. All in all the bike ride probably took about three hours, out of which we probably stopped for one. There was still time to go sailing, so we went quick back to the house to get my Rec Card for the boat rental.

We ran into Jan as he was coming in, but we didn't wanta loose any time as the boat rental now shuts an hour earlier than in summer. Today I was gonna have C sail me around. The wind was nothing like yesterday, it was very mellow. We sailed out of the cove and just cruised gently back and forth. It was so gentle that I could just lean back and put my legs out on the bow. It was heavenly. So heavenly that just before we started sailing back in, the wind completely died on us. Well, we struggled (or C did, to be exact) for an hour tacking into the cove without ever getting that much closer. We realized we were gonna need a few more hours still to make it all the way, when Jenny, the dockmaster, finally came out to us in a motorboat and most thankfully pulled us in. Sort of shameful, I guess. And no. At least we didn't break anything today!