Only place I can think of where you can get close to the water without having some sort of a burm in the way is Silver Strand beach. All the other beaches I've been to in San Diego have a farking burm built up for some reason so you can't get a clear shot of the water and the beach. But now you have to pay to get onto Silver Strand beach. All the pictures in the first post where from on base. Most where on the bay side past the hangers. And the one was over by Navy Lodge in the back parking lot of the Island Club. The larger picture in the second post was from up at Mt. Soledad. You might be able to get some good pics up by the Pt. Loma light house. Not sure what the beaches in IB are like as far as getting pics.