Tours are offered FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED basis. Here is Sunny Jimįrank Baum, who is the author of The Wizard of Oz, named the cave Sunny Jim Cave because apparently the opening to the cave looks somewhat similar to a cartoon character mascot for the British Wheat cereal products during the 1920’s. The Cave Store has offered tours of the tunnel and sea cave since 1905. We could hear sea lions the entire time while we were down there. At the bottom of the Tunnel and in the Sunny Jim CaveĪt the bottom of the tunnel there is a nice boardwalk that you can walk towards the opening of the cave and look out towards the ocean. The tunnel is quite amazing and you can see the different layers of dirt, clay and rock as you go down to the cave. My brother and I both counted 144 stairs… Here we are going down the advertised 145 stairs. The tunnel on the way down is actually really cool! There is a small fee for visiting the tunnel and cave below. The entrance to the tunnel is just right in the store – you can’t miss it. Tickets are priced at 5 for an adult and 3 for a child. Tickets and other practicalities The Cave Store, which is located at 1325 Coast Blvd, is open daily from 9am-5pm (last entry into the tunnel is 5pm). Come prepared to descend and climb the original 144 stairs (roughly a five-minute ascent at a gentle pace). Tours are approximately 15-20 minutes long. Parking can be hard to find near the store entrance. It also has lights and a hand railing to aid visitors down to the cave. It takes around 15-20 minutes descend to the viewing platform at the bottom and return to the top. The Cave store is located at 1325 Coast Blvd La Jolla, CA 92037, and is one of the oldest businesses in town. The Tunnel was dug back in 1902 and a few years after that wooden steps were added. Inside the Cave Store The tunnel entrance I asked the shop owner what kind of “laborers” were hired by Gustav Shultz and he said with a smile, “they were ‘hired’ Asian workers…” I think he was implying that they didn’t receive any wages for their two years of digging the tunnel. The tunnel was carved by a few “laborers” that were put to work by Gustav Shultz. My family and I weren’t interested in the store but the man who owns it has lots of information about the cave and La Jolla in general and he was really friendly too. The entrance to the tunnel is setup as a store with jewelry and other interesting things to buy, called “The Cave Store”. You can only access the Sunny Jim Cave by going through the tunnel or by kayak. Here is the outside of the tunnel that leads to the cave.
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