I stumbled upon this cool article from the San Diego Union-Tribune today about the Coronado Islands. You know the Coronado Islands...they are the islands that appear just west of San Diego, hovering on the horizon. But how much do you know about them? The truth is, pirates, ghosts, gamblers and rumrunners spice up the legend of the tiny Coronados. Pretty cool, huh?
The Coronados offer rugged scenery, spectacular wildlife and some of the Southwest's greatest yarns. The islands belong to Mexico, but they have been used by an entire United Nations of heroes, villains and eccentrics: Russian hunters, Chinese immigrants, Japanese divers, American rumrunners, assorted gamblers, a trigger-happy U.S. lieutenant and what must be Mexico's smallest naval detachment.
These characters share the aquatic stage with dolphins, whales, elephant seals, brown pelicans, cormorants, oyster catchers and boobies. A voyage to the Coronados is a journey into a realm that makes a habit of defying man and sheltering nature.
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