Aerial view of Mission Bay near San Diego, California, looking south. Mission Bay is a bay located south of the Pacific Beach community of San Diego, California. The bay is part of the recreational Mission Bay Park, which is the largest man-made aquatic park in the country, consisting of 4,235 acres, approximately 46% land and 54% water. The combined area makes Mission Bay Park the ninth largest municipally-owned park in the United States. Wakeboarding, jet skiing, sailing, and camping are popular on the bay (wiki 2009).
Aerial view of the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve looking southeast toward the U.S./Mexico Border and the city of Tijuana.
Aerial view of the Tijuana River mouth breaking through a sandbar and entering the Pacific Ocean, looking east.