Bring in the New Year San Diego style! From grand and glamorous to intimate and romantic, there is a New Year's Eve event just for you in San Diego. Sail the night away with lavish food and entertainment aboard a luxury yacht. See and be seen at one of downtown San Diego's hip night clubs. Tickle your toes in the sand at a beach party on the bay complete with fireworks. Or, reserve a special table for two at one of San Diego's finest restaurants. The NYE Beach Party 2012 includes a bay cruise on the 3 story Bahia Belle VIP Party Boat as it floats around Mission Bay with banging beats on this historic vessel.
Mission Bay is a saltwater bay or lagoon located south of the Pacific Beach community of San Diego, California. The bay is part of the recreational Mission Bay Park, which is the largest man-made aquatic park in the country, consisting of 4,235 acres (17.14 km2), approximately 46% land and 54% water. The combined area makes Mission Bay Park the ninth largest municipally-owned park in the United States.
Swimmers and sunbathers take advantage of the warm water, calm surf conditions and the sands of Mission Bay’s beaches. Mission Bay offers boat docks and launching facilities, sailboat and motor rentals, bike/walk paths and basketball courts. There are playgrounds for children. Public restrooms and showers are available, and lifeguard stations are located in designated areas. San Diego Bay is a natural harbor and deepwater port adjacent to San Diego, California. It is 12 mi/19 km long, 1 mi/1.6 km–3 mi/4.8 km wide. The bay is surrounded by the large San Diego urban area and is bordered by the cities of San Diego, National City, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach and Coronado.
Several museum ships call San Diego Bay home. They include the USS Midway, the largest aircraft carrier museum, and the Star of India, the oldest iron-hulled merchant ship afloat and the oldest ship of any type still actually sailing. The Star of India and several other ships and boats on San Diego Bay are the floating collection of the San Diego Maritime Museum; they are open to the public for a fee, and many are in sailing condition. In the northern part of the bay there are two commercial "islands" (actually peninsulas connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land) called Harbor Island and Shelter Island. They were built up from former sand bars and now hold hotels, restaurants, marinas, and public parkland. Across from Harbor Island is a bayside park called Spanish Landing, a historic site which commemorates the meeting in 1769 of two expeditions from Spanish Mexico that made possible the European settlement of California. A dozen other parks are found at various locations along the shoreline.
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