What's Happening in Encinitas, CA…

Encinitas will soon be the scene of two popular bus tours designed to raise money to preserve 3rd Street's boat houses.

The structures are not actual, working boathouses, but are houses built in the shape of sea-going vessels. The two are named the S.S. Moonlight and the S.S. Encinitas, and they were built by engineer Miles Kellogg in the 1920s. He used scrap metal he scavenged from a bathhouse that once stood on Moonlight Beach for the materials.

The tours are being offered by the Encinitas Preservation Association, which owns the boathouses. It also owns an apartment complex comprising four units that sits behind the boathouses, which it intends to convert to affordable housing units.

The association’s ultimate goal is to have the boathouses turned into a museum, which will then be placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The tours, which are slated for August 20 and 27, will take in not only the boathouses, but over 60 historic sites in and around Encinitas. They will run from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm both days, and tickets are $45 per person. Lunch is included, and will be enjoyed at San Dieguito Heritage Museum. The buses will leave from the Encinitas City Hall parking lot at 9:00 am.

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