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  • Visit the pink flamingos at Sea World.

    Visit the pink flamingos at Sea World.

  • Sea World is open year-round with varying operating hours and days.

    Sea World is open year-round with varying operating hours and days.

  • Get "wet" at Sea World - Mission Bay.

    Get "wet" at Sea World - Mission Bay.

  • Sea World is known for spectacular animal shows, interactive attractions, aquariums, rides, dining facilities and education programs for all ages.

    Sea World is known for spectacular animal shows, interactive attractions, aquariums, rides, dining facilities and education programs for all ages.

  • Sea World occupies 189 acres on beautiful Mission Bay Park.

    Sea World occupies 189 acres on beautiful Mission Bay Park.

  • Education, entertainment, research, and conservation make Sea World an ideal place to learn about, enjoy, and gain an appreciation for some of the ocean's most ...

    Education, entertainment, research, and conservation make Sea World an ideal place to learn about, enjoy, and gain an appreciation for some of the ocean's most ...

  • Sea World is one of San Diego's no. 1 attractions and one of the most popular marine parks in the world!

    Sea World is one of San Diego's no. 1 attractions and one of the most popular marine parks in the world!

  • Sea World in Mission Bay - more than 100 million visitors since its opening on March 21, 1964.

    Sea World in Mission Bay - more than 100 million visitors since its opening on March 21, 1964.

  • Mounted police

    Mounted police

  • Belmont Park

    Belmont Park

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Mission Bay Aquatic Center Gets New Lease on Life

Bay Park | Mission Beach | Neighborhood News
Published July 17, 2008

After nine long years of negotiations, the Mission Bay Aquatic Center finally has it's lease. On July 15th, the city council unanimously approved the lease agreement, with only a few modifications required. The 12,500 square foot ...

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The Morning After Mess

Carlsbad | Del Mar | Mission Beach | Neighborhood News | Ocean Beach | Oceanside | Pacific Beach
Published July 3, 2008

The Fourth of July is about celebration. It's about honoring our country, our freedoms, while tossing a few back with family and friends — not on the beach of course — and watching the spectacular displays ...

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Booze Ban Driving Homeless Inland?

Bay Park | Clairemont | Downtown | Hillcrest | Linda Vista | Mission Beach | Mission Hills | Mission Valley | Neighborhood News | Ocean Beach | Old Town | Pacific Beach | Point Loma
Published June 30, 2008

Two opposing views regarding the ban on brew at San Diego's beaches inadvertently surfaced during the June 25th meeting of the Ocean Beach town council. When Officer David Surwilo, community liaison for the police department's Western ...

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A Great Escape

Mission Beach | Restaurant Review
Published June 25, 2008

Red Marlin is the answer. If you can find it. The questions are: Where do you take visitors for dinner when you want to show off San Diego’s shoreline beauty, while sharing food that everyone will ...

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Couldn't Be Better

Feature Stories | Mission Beach
Published March 19, 2008

“We never had speed down here,” Verne Dodds remarked. I nodded, agreeing with my former JV basketball coach, going back 40 years and more to our shared town of Imperial Beach. Mostly sons of Navy enlistees ...

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South Mission Beach Jetty

Mission Beach | Surf Diego
Published Nov. 29, 2007

Name: Chris Hartin Lives: Pacific Beach Surfing: South Mission Beach Jetty "I grew up in that house there," says Chris Hartin, pointing to a row of homes overlooking the South Mission Jetty. "The house with the ...

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All That's Left

Carlsbad | Cover Story | Del Mar | Encinitas | Imperial Beach | La Jolla | Leucadia | Mission Beach | Ocean Beach | Pacific Beach | Point Loma
Published Oct. 25, 2007

1982. Israel and Lebanon were at war. England and Argentina were at war. In Hollywood, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were formed. Navy beat Army 24-7, the Chargers beat the Dolphins 41-38 to make it to ...

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The Virgin of Mission Beach

Feature Stories | Mission Beach
Published Sept. 27, 2007

I get these crazy dreams about her, the kind where I know I'm dreaming, so I can do whatever the hell I want. Sometimes I think she knows it too; the way she looks into my ...

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Plenty of Booze

Cover Story | Mission Beach | Pacific Beach
Published July 19, 2007

Pacific Beach. 2:00 p.m. A typical, sunny summer Saturday. The smell of spilled beer mingles with sea mist and wet wood. I'm bar-hopping, and not one establishment I enter at midday is empty. Many are almost ...

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Their Own Little World: Mission Beach

Feature Stories | Mission Beach
Published July 12, 2007

In Mission Beach, every foot of space counts. Five surf shops, four bars, a handful of restaurants, a resort hotel, a Turkish-style coffee lounge, and an amusement park all fit within its bounds, packed in and ...

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Roger Daltrey In A Mission Beach Hotel Room, 1970

Mission Beach | Picture Story
Published June 14, 2007

The Who's Roger Daltrey in a Mission Beach hotel room, June 13, 1970. The band's Sports Arena show was their fifth on this U.S. tour; in about a month's time, they'd done 24 and were back ...

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Beer, Blondes, and More Beer

Crasher | Mission Beach
Published Aug. 10, 2006

A friend called to tell me about a party she was crashing in Mission Valley. Country singer Kenny Chesney was there. (I recognized the name from his two-month marriage to Renée Zellweger.) One of Chesney's roadies ...

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Thousands of Jars of Mayonnaise

Crasher | Mission Beach
Published May 18, 2006

I was invited to a Cinco de Mayo party at the Wave House in Mission Beach. The producer of a radio show on Free FM 103.7 called and told me that I would be able to ...

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Mission Bay Park's many miles of sidewalk serve all sectors of the self-propelled community.

Bay Park | Mission Beach | Roam-O-Rama
Published Aug. 11, 2005

For cyclists, skaters, walkers, and runners, the vast Mission Bay Park features something quite hard to find in our topographically wrinkled county: dead-flat terrain. Now that fine new or refurbished concrete sidewalks snake around South Shores, ...

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For the Birds

Crasher | Mission Beach
Published Feb. 10, 2005

A lot of writers at the Reader don't go into the office much. With computers, we can all work from home and send in our work. It's a shame. None of that office camaraderie. Oh, for ...

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