The views along San Diego Bay are bananas — especially along the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal near the Hilton San Diego Bayfront.

Did you know? Dole Fresh Fruit Co. leases the floating space, receiving 50,000 containers of bananas and other fruits and vegetables annually at the Port of San Diego from ports in Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

As the largest importer of bananas in North America, experts report the company discharges 2 billion individual bananas and 16 million pineapples in San Diego alone.

The Port of San Diego became Dole’s entry point to the West Coast in 2002 — and the biz will be here a while. Last year, Dole rolled out more electric freight vehicles to load and unload fruit at the terminal.

That means on any given day, you can spot Dole’s cargo and container ships bustling about the bay. The sight always stops us in our tracks.