We visited the "The Cave Store" in La Jolla. We weren't sure what we would find in a "cave store", maybe some fossils or seashells, so we made our way to it. How excited we were to find a hole in the floor of the store leading to the only cave you can enter by land. So we paid our four dollars apiece and hurried on our journey. As we descended the 144 stairs into the earth, we marveled at the walls of the tunnel trickling with water in places.
Down...down...down..till at last we walked out onto a small wooden dockand looked out of the cave from the inside, the ocean crashing on the rocks below us and seagulls nesting in tucked away places above. Many movie studios have used this cave and it's founder, Sunny Jim, left quite an interesting story. Seems years before finding his cave it is suspected he lost his fortune. He thought he could make a living from his cave, so he hiredtwo Chinese laborers in 1902 to excavate an underground tunnel that would lead to the interior of the cave.
The workers finished the cave in one year, using only picks and shovels and carrying out the dirt with a wheel barrow.At first the public could only get to the cave by lowering themselves down by rope. Later they added the stairs. Sunny Jim liked socializing and was said to be quite the ladies man. It was only after his death that it was learned that he had left a wife and six children in Germany! Inside The Cave Store there is a little coffee counter and an outdoor garden to relax or thumb through some more information from the past.
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