This is a video where we go through the Rancho Guajome Nature Trail. In this video, you'll see a Coast Live Oak, a native tree endemic to Southern California. There's lots of fennel and sensitive wildlife habitat in this area.

It's a great time to be out in San Diego because the birds are migrating. Across the US in the next month, we will see birds migrating through the United States. During the week of April 28-May 2nd is the best time to see tons of birds out enjoying our beautiful spring weather.

This park is located in Oceanside. It has a beautiful lake I'll be showing in my next video, which has tons of ducks and swans. People in San Diego are very chill, and anytime you go to this park there's a sense of "time to relax" in the air.

Right in the middle of this trail is a funny L-shaped bridge. The property was first a Rancho that was given to Cave Johnson Couts when he married Isadora Bandini in the 1850s. He lived not a mile from where the park is located at Rancho Guajome Adobe. During the California Gold Rush, he was the main supplier of meat and leather to miners in San Francisco.

Although he is discussed as a pioneer of the area in brochures by the local Parks and Rec office, he was actually quite a cruel man who exploited the labor of local Indigenous tribes, essentially using a debt peonage system to put them into de-facto slavery.

Today, his park is a shared space for all to get their minds off the busy life of the 21st century. Let's all enjoy a little R&R.

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Fun Fact: Guajome actually means :frog pond" in the Indigenous Luiseno language, the tribe endemic to North County San Diego.