We're gonna go to Jim's Sea Cave now.
There's like a gift shop or something and then you go through the store
And there's like this tunnel or underground stairs to go underneath to the cave.
Yep, this cave was built, from what I read, if it's true, it was built by two Chinese men.
What? Really?
Yeah, back in the early...
1900s? I forget. Before the 1920s I think. And they like carved this cave just with like a shovel and
I forget like two instruments so it's pretty impressive.
Oh now I'm really excited to check out this place.
So yeah!
Oh this is it. This thing right?
Oh here it is. The cave store!
So what do we do? We just go through? Oh we pay first, okay.
Are you excited about this, Candy?
Mhmm... it looks cool.
That's where we're going. We're going underneath that thing!
The man at the top of the stairs... see that photo?
The guy that's sitting there, Gustav Schultz. He was an art trader who came here to retire and open an art gallery.
And he came here by the way of the Falkland Islands where he was doing photography for a book
While in the Falklands, most of his art was stolen so he needed a new way to make money.
So when he got to San Diego, he saw that people already had an interest in the caves.
They would climb down the rocks to check them out. And suddenly he just thought
If I dig a tunnel, where I'm going to put my gallery, maybe people would pay me...
and that's just what he did.
Then he hired two Chinese men to do the job.
What else is cool about it is the shape of the cave.
The cave's nickname is Sunny Jim, was given by Frank Baum the author of The Wizard of Oz.
And when he went down in the early 1900s and saw the profile of the cave
it looked a little different at the time because this rock was attached up here.
Frank Baum saw it and he said it reminded him of a mascot named Sunny Jim that was on the cereal box.
Followin you, sista.
Goin down!
Oh wow...
Can't believe two guys did this.
Oh we hear the waves down there. So cool.
This goes down pretty far, huh? This is where it starts getting slippery, so be careful.
Keep watching your head.
I know.
We hear the waves. I think we're close by.
It sounds kinda scary hahaha.
Here it is... the cave.
Alright, let's go
Those are some steep stairs here
Got done with the cave store going underneath the tunnel.
When you come back out, you should definitely explore a little bit around the store
cause there's this really cool spot on the cliff where you can see the kayakers...
Is that the cave we went into?
I don't know which cave it is, but it's gotta be like one of those caves.
That's where the store is up there, so it's gotta be one of those caves down here.
But yeah, it's nice to come out here and like look at all these birds...
Look at all the bird poop on these little rocks.
This is all bird poo.
But it looks like art.
It's like someone painted it on there.
It's bird art. They did this on purpose.
Oh we got here in time.
Yeah, now there's a line.
So yeah, go to the Cave Store early to go down to the tunnel
because when we went, there was like nobody and it was like 9:30.
And they open at 9:00. And now there's a line and a bunch of people.
Oh cool, more hills. Cool, cool cool.
No wonder everybody's so fit in California. They walk up all these hills all the time.