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USS Moray

1944 shipsBalao-class submarinesMaritime incidents in 1970Ship infoboxes without an imageShips built by William Cramp & Sons
Ships sunk as targetsShipwrecks of the California coastWorld War II submarines of the United States

USS Moray (SS-300), a Balao-class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the moray, a family of large eels found in crevices of coral reefs in tropical and subtropical oceans.

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USS Moray
San Clemente Beach Trail, San Clemente

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San Clemente Beach Trail
92674 San Clemente
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La Cristianita Canyon
La Cristianita Canyon

La Cristianita Canyon, or La Christianita Canyon, Los Cristianitos Valley, Canyon of the Little Christians, La Cañada de los Bautismos (the baptism on the Anza Trail) is a canyon now on the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Clemente, San Diego County. La Cristianita Canyon is a California Historical Landmark No. 562 listed on December 31, 1956. The site was a campsite for the Spanish Commander Juan Bautista de Anza and Father Francisco Garcés expedition of 1775 and 1776. The expedition camped at the site in July 1769. At the campsite was a spring where the expedition rested and watered its stock of mules, cattle, and horses. While at the campsite they found Native Americans that had sick children. Father Francisco Garcés baptized the child on July 22, 1769. This was the first Christian Baptism in Alta California. A historical marker is at the site of the a first baptism on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Before the Marine Corps Base the site was on Mission San Luis Rey and then Rancho San Pedro. A second La Cristianita marker, open to the public is at the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens at 415 Avenida Granada, San Clemente. The marker was at the Civic Center. The Spanish Empire Anza expedition passed though the Imperial Valley then though the Colorado Desert, now the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The expedition's goal was to start Spanish missions in California and presidio forts though Las Californias to the San Francisco Bay. The expedition route is now the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail.

San Mateo Rocks
San Mateo Rocks

San Mateo Rocks are uninhabited islands that lie approximately 0.5 mi (0.80 km) off the coast of California, to the south of San Clemente, and just north of San Mateo Point, a minor headland that marks the border between Orange County and San Diego County. The rocks rise about 3 ft (or about 1 m) above high tide. In 2017 the San Mateo Rocks, a pinniped haul-out and scuba destination, became part of the California Coastal National Monument.The Rocks first appear in the documentary record of the area in 1889, when they were described in the Coast Pilot. The sloop Victoria wrecked on the rocks in a storm in 1907. In 1931 the United States Coast Guard reserved the location (along with several other Orange County Rocks) for a possible future San Mateo Rocks Lighthouse, and an act of Congress assigned ownership to the Bureau of Land Management in 1935, but the lighthouse facility was never built. In the early 1970s the waters around the rocks were a collection site for seaweed species in genus Gelidium for use in agar production.The rocks host a transient population of California sea lions. Indigenous people may have used San Mateo Rocks as a pinniped hunting ground. On one occasion this population of sea lions attracted a pod of orcas—quite uncommon in local waters—who used a clever pack-hunting technique to force the sea lions off the rock and into the water where they would be ready prey. The rocks are a common destination for local dive boats.