Air-conditioning, cable TV, voice mail and Wireless Internet put the motel in the 21 st century. His relentless devotion is matched by the guests 85 percent repeat business. Becky from Colorado, who is in her 40s, has been returning every year since she was five. Arizonian Mr. An interior and exterior facelift on the two-story seaside complex resulted in amenities aplenty -- wifi, high-definition, flat-screen TVs in all 24 rooms, kitchens, waterfront fire-rings, patio barbeques, and the shuffleboard court was converted into a putting green.
Owners Holly and Alan Murdock are the father and son team running the property since its purchase 34 years ago.
Cleanliness is paramount in the room, two-story motel situated one-and-a-half miles from the airport. There are no telephones or clocks in the rooms, but a loaner cell phone and alarm clock are available in the office for free. Customer demand brought high speed Internet, air conditioning and cable TV to each room.
From 6 a. Businessmen, and tourists worldwide keep the Dolphin at 75 percent to 80 percent capacity year-round. During the summer months, half the guests are carrying rods and reels. Nature and ecology excursions are also available to spot migrating Gray Whales and dolphins.
Winter weekends require a five month advanced reservation. Impressive in an economy where many hotels are shuttered before the patina fades on lobby floors. Two generations of family fortitude and a stellar staff maintain the 22 Cape Cod-style bungalows erected on the wooden pier.
Vacationers literally sleep over the ocean, dozing to the rhythmic lull of the waves beneath. Clientele is generally comprised of families. The surrounding community offers its own fun with kayaking, cycling and other outdoor excitement. This is visible in the picture with the completed eight lane I-5 visible at the bottom of the picture and again just beyond the San Diego River crossing.
Note the continued use of the older interchange. Left: Mission Bay Freeway, Top of Page. While this was a much needed improvement, it was not until that the limited access portion was extended south of Barnett Ave. The extension was short, however. It only went for about a mile south, with the major improvement being the grade separation over Washington St.
This portion saw service as US for seven years until it was superseded by I-5 in Unlike many other abandoned freeways in California, this one still has the bulk of its original signage and offers an interesting look at what signs looked like at the time.
As mentioned in the previous section, in , Pacific Highway north of Washington St. It also afforded a savings in travel time by continuing in a straight line rather than swinging out as the older s alignment had. In the original pavement was removed and the freeway was realigned to accommodate the new eight lane freeway. However, all of the original bridges still exist, though they were widened.
In fact, the one over Rose Canyon Creek still has the original curbing in the middle, complete with the reflectorized divots. Its longest research cruise had been to the Gulf of California. The Navy borrowed E. Scripps for research studies from until The sardine project, established in , was funded generously by the state legislature and through a tonnage tax on sardines collected from fishermen.
The plan of attack devised in and modified in was a bold one. It was to survey , square miles of ocean, from the mouth of the Columbia River to halfway down Baja California and extending outward miles.
Through this region flowed the great California Current. For a systematic survey, a grid was laid out by drawing a line roughly parallel to the coast from which right-angle lines were drawn at mile intervals. Along these lines stations were spotted every forty miles. Each station was to be occupied once a month by one of the participating ships.
At each station were taken a plankton tow, a hydrographic cast, a bathythermograph record, and a phytoplankton cast. Some dip-netting was done for fishes, and notes were taken on marine birds and mammals. The surveying ships were small for that large ocean. The survey cruises went out every month of each year throughout the s, in rough weather or calm.
Through those years the participants gathered what is probably the most complete plankton collection of any area in the world, developed a great deal of new equipment, and acquired a thorough picture of the California Current region. They did not determine with certainty what happened to the sardines. But they turned their attention to all the commercial fisheries of California. The Marine Life Research Program continues at Scripps, although with fewer cruises than during the s.
So, back at Scripps, Revelle proposed Midpac Expedition for the summer of , a three-month voyage from San Diego throughout the vast area of the Pacific to the Marshall Islands and home.
Intensive sounding lines outlined a previously unknown undersea mountain range some sixty miles wide, which the geologists named the Mid-Pacific Mountains. Soundings also showed that the Mendocino Escarpment extended a full thousand miles from shore. Seafloor photographs as deep as 20, feet showed ripple marks presumed to be from previously unsuspected deep currents. Seismic-refraction profiles indicated that only a thousand feet of sediments had accumulated on the seafloor through the millennia, leaving a mystery to be solved another day as to where the rest of the sediments had disappeared.
For the first time ever the flow of heat through the ocean floor was measured, with seven valid records from the new piece of eqipment. The geological and geophysical results, new in , would eventually contribute to the understanding of seafloor spreading and plate tectonics that came about in the s.
In the summer of Scripps scientists sailed to and into the Gulf of Alaska on what they called Northern Holiday, which scientific leader Warren S. The scientists watched other aspects of the sea too, described by John D. Isaacs in a radio message:. Today at noon a shout brought everyone from chow; not yards off our beam glowed a great green brown Japanese glass float. Swiftly it was astern and steady on its solitary course.
We would have liked to have stopped and picked it up but we are not very maneuverable underway with cables streaming astern to the jog log and thermitow. These are invaluable but unbeautiful instruments that give us a wealth of oceanographic data. They stop us from chasing glass bubbles. Harris B. We are restraining ourselves with difficulty from breaking off a chunk to see if it is MnO 2 all the way through.
On Northern Holiday another new piece of equipment was used successfully, the Isaacs-Kidd midwater trawl, which was devised by John D. Isaacs and Lewis W.
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