Fall fun in California
Autumn in California brings fall color, cooler nights, the grape harvest and plenty of seasonal festivals....
Birch Aquarium
Summer fun in our own backyard
Visitors to our area spend thousands of dollars to travel here and stay, so check out why they are coming to Southern California....
Rare pregnant seadragon at Birch
SAN DIEGO — A female Weedy Seadragon has transferred eggs to a male at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San...
Birch Aquarium Little Blue Penguin dies
Birch Aquarium is saddened to announce that a Little Blue Penguin, Magic, has died. Magic had been battling aspergillosis, a fungal infection, for several weeks,...
Little Blue Penguins head for Cincinnati
LA JOLLA — A few months after arriving at the Birch Aquarium from Australia, five of the 15 Little Blue Penguins have been moved 2,000...
Little blue penguins swimming with personality at Birch Aquarium
What’s 12 inches high, has 10,000 feathers and turns blue in the water? The answer is a little blue penguin, and 15 of these nuthin’-but-cute...
Birch Aquarium set to welcome world’s smallest penguins in new exhibit
SAN DIEGO — Aquarium-goers will be able to see the world’s smallest penguins when the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San...
Travel plans changed? There’s plenty to do in San Diego County
Happy New Year. Since this is my first column of 2022, I feel as though I should talk about grand plans to visit faraway places,...
Hit the Road: Whale watching, other ideas as county slowly reopens
San Diego County is opening up ever-so-slowly and businesses and attractions are looking to bring back new and former customers....
Hit the Road: Winter means whale-watching season
December through March is the optimum time to see some of the thousands of gray whales that migrate from their feeding grounds in the Bering...
Hit the Road: Celebrating fall in California
If you think you have to visit Vermont to be a leaf peeper and celebrate the season, think again....
Hit the Road: Seadragons & Seahorses exhibit comes to Birch Aquarium
Most of us would never get to see these unique creatures of the sea if it weren’t for the new exhibit at the Birch Aquarium...
