{"id":318727,"date":"2023-01-16T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=318727"},"modified":"2023-01-16T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:02:44","slug":"la-playa-trail-associations-winter-lecture-series-begins-on-jan-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/la-playa-trail-associations-winter-lecture-series-begins-on-jan-17\/","title":{"rendered":"La Playa Trail Association\u2019s Winter Lecture Series begins on Jan. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Point Loma\u2019s La Playa Trail Association will hold<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> its first presentation in the fall lecture series: \u201cHomeport: Point Loma, Part 2,\u201d on Tuesday, Jan. 17, from 5:30-7 p.m., detailing the further expeditions of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the U.S. Navy, and other remarkable events involving Point Loma. Everyone is welcome at Point Loma Assembly, 3035 Talbot St.<\/p>\n

The speaker, retired Scripps Institution o<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>cean mi<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ngineer, Kevin Hardy, has drawn material from personal experience, published texts, and historical accounts. Hardy will recap his first presentation to the LPTA in January 2020, then detail the further impact of Point Loma on world history.<\/p>\n

From the distant time of Native Peoples to the arrival of Spanish explorers, to today as homeport to the U.S. Navy Submarine Base, the lee side of Point Loma and its near-shore deep water has been a favorite place to dock in San Diego Bay. The world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography has tied its ships to docks on Point Loma from 1924 until now. Point Loma has been the home port to extraordinary missions to the sea that have pushed the boundaries of ocean engineering, marine science, international commerce, and naval warfare.<\/p>\n

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Former Hollywood swashbuckler, Errol Flynn, at the chart table of his two-masted 118-feet long schooner, Zaca. In 1952, Flynn took a group of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an expedition from Point Loma, through the Panama Canal to the Caribbean, collecting samples for scientific research aboard Zaca. Flynn\u2019s film on ocean exploration, \u2018Cruise of the Zaca,\u2019 preceded Jacques Yves Cousteau\u2019s \u2018Silent World\u2019 by four years. COURTESY PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first tide gauge for San Diego was installed in 1854 at Old La Playa, indicating the site\u2019s importance to maritime trade. The commercial anchorage at Old La Playa near Ballast Point was the terminus of a historic bayside trail, connecting merchant ships to the settled inland areas of Old Town San Diego. La Playa Trail is recognized as the oldest commercial trail in the Western United States. The original sites extend to the grounds of Naval Base Point Loma, accessible to the public during the annual Cabrillo Festival.<\/p>\n

Alonzo Horton expanded berthing as part of his development of \u201cNew San Diego\u201d in the 1860s, now known as \u201cdowntown San Diego.\u201d The first dredging of San Diego Bay was done and a new nautical chart was released in 1892. Commercial shipping moved to the piers downtown. The U.S. Navy Submarine Support Facility, Scripps Institution\u2019s Marine Facilities, sport fishing docks, two yacht clubs, and numerous ship chandlers remain in Point Loma.<\/p>\n

Hardy will be joined by noted local author, and PLHS Pointer alum, John Freeman, to debut his new book, \u201cAstounding! A Pictorial History of San Diego.\u201d Initially inspired by an earlier Hardy presentation, Freeman has gone way beyond, assembling a broad collection of tales of San Diego\u2019s talent and accomplishment in numerous fields. Autographed copies will be available that evening at a reduced cost of $20.<\/p>\n

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Point Loma\u2019s La Playa Trail Association will hold its first presentation in the fall lecture series: \u201cHomeport: Point Loma, Part 2,\u201d on Tuesday, Jan. 17, from 5:30-7 p.m., detailing the further expeditions of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the U.S. Navy, and other remarkable events involving Point Loma. Everyone is welcome at Point Loma Assembly, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1496,"featured_media":318728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Point Loma\u2019s La Playa Trail Association will hold its first presentation in the fall lecture series: \u201cHomeport: Point Loma, Part 2,\u201d on Tuesday, Jan. 17, from 5:30-7 p.m., detailing the further expeditions of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the U.S. Navy, and other remarkable events involving Point Loma. Everyone is welcome at Point Loma Assembly, 3035 Talbot St.","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"3","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11561],"tags":[14973,14727,12780,14175,14974,14972,14975,12713],"class_list":["post-318727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-peninsula-beacon","tag-ballast-point","tag-errol-flynn","tag-la-playa-trail-association","tag-naval-base-point-loma","tag-old-la-playa","tag-old-town-san-diego","tag-panama-canal","tag-scripps-institution-of-oceanography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}