Edwin Hacking will be leading our fun and informative photography workshops. He will cover Technical Setup, Creative Control and apply these principles in a field trip.

On Saturday, January 21st at 4 pm, discover the world of Leatherback Sea Turtles with Catherine Kilduff from the Center for Biological Diversity. She has graciously agreed to join us from the East coast via Zoom and talk to us about the Pacific leatherback. This is a turtle that has survived in the ocean waters since […]

Limited to 6 people, duration: 2 hours, location: Visitor Center Please use the following Eventbrite link to sign up. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/phone-camera-workshop-with-edwin-hacking-tickets-479627828747 Class:  Phone Camera Instruction Camera Type:  iPhone or Samsung Duration:  2 hours What to bring to class:  charge your camera battery & bring charger, camera manual if you have one, jacket for outdoors. Class Content: […]

On Saturday, January 28th at 10 am, 30 people can comb the trails for one hour searching and collecting mushrooms.  Place your collected mushrooms in a large basket or doubled paper bag. Waxed paper sandwich bags would be helpful if you can find them. Then return to the Walnut Grove picnic area for J.R. Blair […]

 On Saturday, February 18th, 2023, at 3 pm, join J.R. Blair, retired lecturer from San Francisco State University, on Zoom for his “Antarctica Travelogue.” From the comfort of our chairs, we will travel to the southern tip of South America, the Falkland Islands, and Antarctica to see and visit many of the places from […]

The Friends of San Pedro Valley Park welcome Loretta O’Brien, Co-founder and Director of Pacifica Gardens, who will present a lecture via Zoom on Wednesday, March 15, 2023 at 7 pm entitled “Vegetable Gardening 101.”  She will discuss how to start a vegetable garden and how best to maintain it.  She will talk about how […]

  On Saturday, March 25th at 4 pm via Zoom, Dr. Joseph Szewczak will discuss his investigations into the extraordinary physiological capabilities of bats, from cold torpor to the intense demands of flight and high altitude and bat distributions.  He will also speak about the need for software to study vocalizations both in birds and […]

Come join us on Friday, April 21st from 10 am to 1 pm for a special Friends of San Pedro Valley Park Volunteer Event! We are joining the Pacific Beach Coalition and other Pacifica volunteer groups during the month of April to celebrate Earth Day by…. We will provide the tools, gloves & plants and you, the […]

The Friends of San Pedro Valley Park welcome Shelby Kawana, an Environmental Scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, who will present a lecture via Zoom on Saturday, May 13th at 4 pm entitled "Kelp Forest Ecology, Management and Restoration in California."  California’s iconic canopy-forming kelp forests are a critical resource and ecosystem […]

On Saturday, June 17th, 2023 at 6 pm in the Visitor Center, join our local bird expert, Joe Morlan, for his talk, "Just Look and You Will See."  His presentation will focus primarily on local birds, some of which migrate long distances to the tropics for the winter, as well as those that breed far […]