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Join Springtime Tours at San Elijo Lagoon
See the first ducklings and landbird fledglings of the season. Wildflowers are in bloom. Join naturalist-led tours this spring.
San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy invites you to experience the beauty of spring at San Elijo Lagoon. Bring your camera, and friends and family along for a discovery tour.
UPCOMING TOURS (free):
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(also 3rd Sundays 3-4 pm)
Walks begin and end at San Elijo Lagoon Nature Center. The focus of this tour is along the ADA-accessible nature center loop trail which winds through salt marsh and riparian habitat. See mullet leap from the water or a patient Snowy Egret waiting for fish. The nature center is open daily with exhibits about the early cultural history of the lagoon and its diversity of plants and animals.
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Saturday, May 9 along Santa Carina Trail: 9-11 am
On second Saturdays, we go deeper into the wetland in these special guided tours. Set out traversing coastal sagebrush with chaparral communities on the hills in the lagoon’s south side. Underfoot are broken bits of shells, reminders of the native people who once lived here. You will see the freshwater marsh below, and if lucky, you might glimpse mule deer that reside in this eastern region of the reserve.
For more information, please visit SanElijo.org/Walks. Walks are presented by San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy, the community-supported nonprofit land trust for the 979-acre San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve.
