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Baseball Season and Early Spring in San Diego

·San Diego, California·#spring#coastal#San Diego#daily-life#encinitas
Ocean waves under a cloudy sky, with purple and brown flowers in the foreground.

Baseball season is why we timed the trip — the Padres billboards are up at Petco Park again, three batters twenty feet tall over the palm trees, and downtown had that early-April buzz even from the sidewalk outside the gates.

After that we drove up the coast to Encinitas. Started at the J Street Viewpoint, where the sea lavender on the bluff was blooming purple over a churned-up gray-green ocean, lines of whitewater stacked most of the way to the horizon. From there we walked toward Swami's, past the gold domes of the Self-Realization Fellowship and the surfer-crossing sign out front, which is apparently a real traffic control device here and not a joke.

Down on the beach the tide was pushing hard into the riprap below lifeguard tower 19 — spray coming over the rocks, surfers still out past the break anyway. Climbed back up by the Cardiff Kook statue, arms out over the campground.

Surf and turf taco to finish, shrimp and carne asada under crema and cabbage, chips going soggy before we could get to them.

Three baseball players on a stadium billboard above a 'petco park' sign and a large 'SD' logo, framed by palm trees.A tree with abundant clusters of small pink flowers and green leaves against a bright blue sky.A wooden sign for "J street VIEWPOINT CITY OF ENCINITAS" stands amidst green foliage with stairs leading uphill.A yellow sign depicting a person with a surfboard stands in front of a white building with gold domes and palm trees.Ocean waves crash against large, dark rocks in the foreground, with distant surfers in the water under a clear sky.A light blue lifeguard tower 19 stands on a rocky beach below a cliff with palm trees, overlooking an ocean with waves.A bronze statue of a boy overlooking a bright blue ocean with palm trees under a clear sky.A large taco loaded with fried shrimp, sliced meat, shredded cabbage, and white sauce in a paper tray.

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