LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER

The 3 mounted fish I donated

LIVING COAST DISCOVERY CENTER-FORMER CHULA VISTA NATURE CENTER

A few weeks ago I donated 3 mounted fish to this nature center that included a Rooster Fish and 2 Black Sea Bass.  

                                                      We recently visited the facility.

One of the Sea Bass I donated

Colorful starfish

The Living Coast  Discovery Center is a natural treasure on San Diego Bay. The zoo and aquarium is uniquely situated on the Sweetwater Marsh National Wildlife Refuge, offering visitors an ideal setting in which to explore the animals and plants that call this coastal region home.  Some of the exhibits include Green Turtles, a shark and ray pool and shorebird and raptor aviaries.

Shark pool

                                

  

 Remnants of the buildings can still be seen out on the Nature Center trails from the Hercules Powder Company kelp processing plant built on Gunpowder Point  from 1916-1920 to extract materials used in the production of explosives used in World War I. 

The Chula Vista Nature Center was constructed in 1986-1987.
Greenhouses were constructed and used to grow crops just east of the marsh and on the 46 acres of the land where the Nature Center is now located from the 1930’s to the 1980’s.

Red Tail Hawk on nature trail

Egret

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