California and the Golden West
Hello everyone, greetings from a nice and sunny Anaheim, I know its been a couple of weeks since I arrived here in California, unfortunately not had a lot of spare time to blog ... but here is a complete run down of the places visited since the 20th May ... unfortunately heading for home on the 3rd June arriving back in the UK in time to help everyone celebrate the Jubilee, hope that you are all having a good weekend. Come back again soon, next week I am off to Canadian Rockies and Alaska .... San Diego - Shaped like a hook and protected by the peninsula of Coronado, the 22 square miles of San Diego Bay form a natural deepwater harbour around which the second largest city in California has grown. The bay was discovered in 1542 by the Portuguese explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo. Colonization did not follow until 1769. In that year, the founding father of the mission chain, Junipero Serra, arrived into the region as part of a military expedition to secure Alta California, for Spain.