A SOBER LOVE OF NATURE UNDERLIES AND REINFORCES LOVE TO GOD AND LOVE TO MAN! THESE SENTI- 

 MENTS BELONG TOGETHER ; DISSOCIATED THEY ARE IMPARED. NO RELIGIOUS TEACHER CAN AVOID DEALING 

 SOMETIMES WITH THE RELATIONS OF MAN AND GOD TO NATURE! FOR THESE SUBJECTS ARE INTENSELY 

 INTERESTING ALIKE TO SIMPLE AND TO CULTIVATED MINDS. — Charles William Eliot, LL. D , President of 

 Harvard University, 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



VOL II 



MAY, 1909 



No. 2 



OUTDOOR WoRLD 



Nature at Coronado Beach 



BY JESSIE PORTER WHITAKER, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 



EAUTIFUL for situation, 

 a joy to the lover of nat- 

 ural scenery, is Coronado 

 with her picturesque ho- 

 tel embowered in tropical 

 foliage ; Point Loma, 

 thrusting forth a massive 

 bulwark against the sunset sky; with 

 the tent city on the Silver Strand, 

 stretching away southward, washed on 

 one side by beating surf while on the 

 other lies the still blue bay and beyond 

 are the mountain peaks of Old Mexi- 

 co, gleaming red in the rays of the setting 

 sun. In spite of her beauty, Coronado 

 could scarcely be compared, as a field for 

 nature study, with La Jolla, so charm- 

 ingly described in an issue of The) Guide; 

 to Nature; as "The Nature Lover's 

 Beach." 



The observant eye finds here, how- 

 ever, much in "common-place nature 

 of uncommon interest." There are no 

 fascinating rock pools in which to 

 search for sea anemones but low tide 



reveals some of the huge rocks of the 

 breakwater plastered with masses of 

 tiny bits of shell and pebbles which, 

 when touched, show by a quick con- 

 tractile movement that these are nurs- 

 eries of babv anemones snugly hidden 

 underneath their concealing blanket. 



On the sand lies an object which 

 suggests by its shape a blue lotus blos- 

 som set in a large finger bowl. Its 

 semi-transparent substance shows it 

 to be a jellyfish — an inappropriate 

 name for it belongs to the Zoophytes or 

 animal plants and resembles a fish 

 only in the fact that it can swim. The 

 central organ, called the manubrium, 

 is, in this species, a Muted mass, some- 

 thing like petals, standing upright in 

 the bowl-shaped disk which curves 

 over at the edge giving the whole the, 

 appearance of a semi-transparent 

 flower. We posed one of these on the 

 breakwater and attempted to take its 

 photograph but it was too small in 

 comparison with its surroundings and 



Copyright 1909 by The Agassiz Association, Stamford. Conn. 



