Coronado Island

In early October, we traveled to San Diego. Everything I read said that we just had to visit Coronado Island to go to the beach. Our hotel was within walking distance to the ferry (about ½ mile) to Coronado Island so while we could have taken an Uber for cheaper, we wanted to have a little boat ride in the bay so we opted for the ferry option. It cost us $30 for the three of us to get round trip tickets.
I feel like we made the right choice. Everyone loved the breeze as we crossed the bay. Plus, the great views and being able to get our sunscreen on during our trip was a great plus.

Once we got to Coronado though, we did still need to take an Uber to the other side of the island. We had them drop us off at MooTime Creamery so that we could grab some ice cream before hitting the beach. It was a cute little shop. The only seating was outside so if you plan to go here, hope that the weather is nice (although, it is California, so…). I had the grasshopper sundae. It was delicious! My husband had the low tide mudslide and my son had the dirt+worms sundae. I don’t think there are any bad options here. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed what they had.

When we were done eating, we walked down to the beach. It was beautiful. There were rocks where the beach met the sidewalk, with stairs down to the sand. We walked along the sand path to the edge of the water. Then, we found a place for our stuff. It seemed like there were plenty of people at the beach, but it still didn’t feel busy. I mean, we were there on a Saturday afternoon, but it was October. We stayed at the beach for about 3 hours. At first, we weren’t having very much fun in the water because there was just SOO much seaweed. But we soon discovered that if you just went out further, there wasn’t any seaweed. We ended up having a great time.

Eventually, we did get tired though, so we ordered an Uber to take us back to the ferry stop. There are 2 ferries that stop here. One goes to the north stop and one goes to the south stop. We originally got on at the south stop, but we wanted to take the ferry to the north stop so that we could go to a restaurant that was right there.
We were only on Coronado for about 4 hours, but we did really enjoy it.