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Whale Mountain is a 3,043-foot (928 m), summit in the northwestern Cuyamaca Mountains in San Diego County, California. It is located between Ramona and Santa Ysabel , near Ballena Valley . Ballena takes its name from the mountain, ballena being Spanish for "whale".
The Ipai name for the mountain was Epank, meaning "whale," and ballena is the Spanish word for "whale." Ballena began in 1870, as a way stop and layover point for freight wagons, which provided fresh teams of horses and mules for the wagons on the road between the gold rush camps of Branson City , Coleman City , Eastwood and Julian − and the ...
Gray Whale and Calf: 509 Pacific Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach, California: July 9, 1981: Painted over in 1996; painted ceramic tile mural made in 1996; wall-mounted painted mural-on-canvas in 2019 [3] [4] 02: Young Gray Whale: Ocean Institute, San Clemente, California: March 20, 1982: Relocated to Concordia Elementary School, San Clemente. 03 ...
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The Portuguese-American Johnsons, Alpheus and William came to San Diego from Massachusetts in 1856. The Ballast Point Whaling Station was on Ballast Point. The whaling station processed whales to make whale oil. Whale oil was a very popular as in oil lamps it produced little smoke. Whale oil was also used in miner's headlamps, lighthouses ...
A dead 52-foot fin whale washed up on Pacific Beach in San Diego Sunday. The whale came ashore sometime before 9:30 a.m. local time, NBC San Diego reported, off of Santa Rita Place near the border ...
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, usually referred to as Cardiff, is a beach community in the incorporated city of Encinitas in San Diego County, California.The Pacific Ocean is to the west of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, the rest of incorporated Encinitas is to the east and north, and a beach and lagoon to the south.
Out of nowhere, two giant blue whales rose from under Captain CiCi Sayer and Dale Frink's boat off the coast of San Diego July 2, casting them into the ocean. Thankfully neither was hurt ...