Paris?
Eiffel Tower!
Sydney?
Opera House!
San Francisco?
Golden Gate Bridge!
Yes, well, that one is a bit tricky.
These famous Bridge pics with the sparkling city in the distance?
Not the SF city lights, I can tell.
Let's get this straight: the bridge that starts right at the SF Waterfront is the San Francisco Bay Bridge, going East to Oakland and Berkeley: three or four pylons, free lightshow at night.
At the same waterfront you can (or cannot, SF tends to be very misty at times) see the Golden Gate at the far left, as a tiny structure behind the masts of the vessels that are moored in the bay.
We haven't figured out yet how to get to the Bridge. Yes, book a pricey cruise and sail under it, includes circling Alcatraz. So that famous part of SF is Not Yet Visited.
But something else is - and that's hilarious - for visitors to the City as famous as the Golden Gate.
Pier 39.
The Waterfront starts at Bay Bridge, at first named Embarcadero, and ends at Fishermans Wharf.
There are about 45 piers (or warehouses) reaching far into the water, at the front camouflaged by large, white, proud buildings with a huge arched entrance in the middle. Quite imposing, you see the importance of these wharfs at the time when they were built.
Anyway, in the age of containers the piers were abandoned and are now rejuvinated, and in between marinas were built to attract the wealthy.
As at Pier 39.
The marina was built, the rich moored their yachts, and when they returned to their boats they found huge sea lions sunbathing on their pricey decks.
Now these beasts cannot easily be removed. Plus, they returned asap when shoved onto the wooden jetty. Plus, they exude a pretty horrible smell. And they bark.
The sea lions didn't budge and in the end the only thing SF municipal council could do was leave the whole marina to the sea lions. The rest is history, and a tourist destination SF couldn't have imagined in its wildest dreams.
So now the obnoxious sea lions are 'Our Sea Lion Friends' occupying Pier 39, were they're lying next to a veritable Coney Island tourist trap.
But hey, I've never seen sea lions IRL so we even returned to the Pier after spotting them for the first time after sunset.
They're fun to look at.
We can now reasonably accurate imitate their barking.
And they do indeed smell horrible.
Unk!
Eiffel Tower!
Sydney?
Opera House!
San Francisco?
Golden Gate Bridge!
Yes, well, that one is a bit tricky.
These famous Bridge pics with the sparkling city in the distance?
Not the SF city lights, I can tell.
Let's get this straight: the bridge that starts right at the SF Waterfront is the San Francisco Bay Bridge, going East to Oakland and Berkeley: three or four pylons, free lightshow at night.
At the same waterfront you can (or cannot, SF tends to be very misty at times) see the Golden Gate at the far left, as a tiny structure behind the masts of the vessels that are moored in the bay.
We haven't figured out yet how to get to the Bridge. Yes, book a pricey cruise and sail under it, includes circling Alcatraz. So that famous part of SF is Not Yet Visited.
But something else is - and that's hilarious - for visitors to the City as famous as the Golden Gate.
Pier 39.
The Waterfront starts at Bay Bridge, at first named Embarcadero, and ends at Fishermans Wharf.
There are about 45 piers (or warehouses) reaching far into the water, at the front camouflaged by large, white, proud buildings with a huge arched entrance in the middle. Quite imposing, you see the importance of these wharfs at the time when they were built.
Anyway, in the age of containers the piers were abandoned and are now rejuvinated, and in between marinas were built to attract the wealthy.
As at Pier 39.
The marina was built, the rich moored their yachts, and when they returned to their boats they found huge sea lions sunbathing on their pricey decks.
Now these beasts cannot easily be removed. Plus, they returned asap when shoved onto the wooden jetty. Plus, they exude a pretty horrible smell. And they bark.
The sea lions didn't budge and in the end the only thing SF municipal council could do was leave the whole marina to the sea lions. The rest is history, and a tourist destination SF couldn't have imagined in its wildest dreams.
So now the obnoxious sea lions are 'Our Sea Lion Friends' occupying Pier 39, were they're lying next to a veritable Coney Island tourist trap.
But hey, I've never seen sea lions IRL so we even returned to the Pier after spotting them for the first time after sunset.
They're fun to look at.
We can now reasonably accurate imitate their barking.
And they do indeed smell horrible.
Unk!
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