Things to Do in Rancho San Diego

The experienced staff at Seaforth Boat Rentals play host to watery adventures that were voted finalists for the KGTV San Diego A-List’s Best Water Activities in 2010 and 2011. Guided sailing adventures and WaveRunner tours shoot seafarers along the waterways for exceptional views of the coastline, splashing sea life, and dolphins circling on their own WaveRunners.

Consummate aquaphiles can haul various benefits⎯including reduced rates on the rentals of kayaks, canoes, and other seaworthy crafts, access to all five Seaforth locations, and free bicycle rentals in Mission Bay⎯with the Seaforth Sailing Club membership. Seaforth also offers sailing classes along with myriad sailing, yachting, and fishing charters for luxurious days on the water or early mornings spent serenading elusive sailfish.

Seasoned boaters and new boatees will gain seaside exposure to the latest boat products as well as enormous gallery views of boats both old and new. For those looking to buy a boat as an act of love or contrition, boat dealers populate the event and will happily take you on a test ride of one of their skiffs before you return to shore for a full day's worth of brokerage boats, free boat rides, seminars, 80 exhibitor booths keeping you up to date on marine mobility, and live music set against a beer garden. Begin the education process for your long-awaited return to the ocean.

In 1991, the eponymous founder of Losina Art Center, Olya Losina, moved to La Jolla from Moscow, where she was raised among a vibrant artistic community and served as the art director for the Soviet Union's largest multilingual publishing facility. Losina's fine-art methods, which she honed while obtaining her master's degree at Moscow University, focus on teaching art as a science. While helping her students at the center to work toward mastery of portraiture, the human form, landscapes, and still-life subjects, she performs exercises that aim to reach them on a subconscious level. Together with Losina, the students examine the conscious thoughts that often intrude upon creative expression. They approach the artistic consciousness as a surgeon would approach a brain when trying to dislodge catchy pop tunes from the frontal lobe. With obstructions cleared, pupils find themselves able to work freely and efficiently.

Before dancing entered the mainstream, proms and homecomings were nothing more than public juice gatherings where uncomfortable standing-in-place was punctuated by red punch moustaches. Malashock Dance has been celebrating the intrigue of rhythmic movement for 22 years as its extraordinary dancers and choreographers educate and inspire anyone with a pulse in their dance-marrow. Amateurs and expert movers alike can try a variety of adult technique classes scheduled throughout the week. Learn new ways to move and communicate through your body-chords with beginner and intermediate Modern Technique classes on Mondays from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., or infuse dance movements with technical core work, stretches, and breath in Pilates Flow sessions Thursdays from 7 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. Classes range from evening hours to morning sessions, including the self-expressive mid-morning Modern Technique class from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Wednesdays.

To the uninitiated, the dusty, mountainous expanse just north of the Mexico border might sound like a war-torn battleground—it has born the boots of soldiers in the United States Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. However, the troops simply visited to practice plane evacuations at Skydive San Diego, whose private, skydiving-only airport is buffeted by steady winds and outfitted with state-of-the-art Cessna and DeHavilland jump planes.

Civilians can jump there too, drinking in views of the Pacific before leaping out of an aircraft for solo jumps or tandem dives, in which a USPA-certified instructor harnesses securely to the jumper with professional equipment and a powerful hug. With 8,000 square feet of padded packing area, the full-service facility not only houses an airport, but also a bunkhouse for overnight stays and a deck for barbecuing post-jump feasts.