This afternoon I used the Bay Cruise ticket that was part of my Muir Woods and Sausalito tour ticket for a trip around the bay. There are an awful lot of different types of vessels on the bay, and sometimes all at the same time. With all the ferries, tour boats, pleasure yachts, jetskis and other things going about, it's amazing that they never run into each other. The surfer was making use of the strong winds that funnel in through the bay entrance under the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Blue & Gold Fleet proudly describe how they are the only tour that goes around the Alcatraz island - carefully omitting that the reason why they go around it is that the competition (their bitter rivals, the Red & White Fleet) has exclusive docking rights, so they can't actually go there!
The cruise route goes from Pier 41 out along the shoreline, under the Golden Gate Bridge, and then back under the bridge and around Alcatraz before returning to Pier 41. Thus you can get some close-up pictures of the bridge from underneath to contrast with the earlier pictures that I was able to take from the Marin side on the tour earlier in the week. I could see the layby up in the hills where we stopped.
It was extremely windy up front of the boat on the bottom deck, much less so on the top deck, although some people had came fully prepared for the likely cold wind, and thus were able to stay warm. It wasn't all that bad, as long as you were in the sun, as the sun's heat and the wind's cold cancelled each other out.
Unfortunately, it was impossible to hear the tour narration over the noise of the wind, at least on the lower deck, but it probably didn't add anything on top of the information provided by Michael on the coach tour and I've already been to visit Alcatraz on a previous visit to San Francisco.
After the cruise, I went to have lunch at the Boudin bakery. I had a half chicken and chips, which I enjoyed. I declined their dessert menu in favour of visiting the annual Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival just along the road. I didn't pay to get in (you could get lots of free hot fudge sundaes if you went in) but I just had a brownie fudge sundae instead before racing back to my hotel (well, on a #30 bus) and then down to the ballpark for the game.
This afternoon I used the Bay Cruise ticket that was part of my Muir Woods and Sausalito tour ticket for a trip around the bay. There are an awful lot of different types of vessels on the bay, and sometimes all at the same time. With all the ferries, tour boats, pleasure yachts, jetskis and other things going about, it's amazing that they never run into each other. The surfer was making use of the strong winds that funnel in through the bay entrance under the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Blue & Gold Fleet proudly describe how they are the only tour that goes around the Alcatraz island - carefully omitting that the reason why they go around it is that the competition (their bitter rivals, the Red & White Fleet) has exclusive docking rights, so they can't actually go there!
The cruise route goes from Pier 41 out along the shoreline, under the Golden Gate Bridge, and then back under the bridge and around Alcatraz before returning to Pier 41. Thus you can get some close-up pictures of the bridge from underneath to contrast with the earlier pictures that I was able to take from the Marin side on the tour earlier in the week. I could see the layby up in the hills where we stopped.
It was extremely windy up front of the boat on the bottom deck, much less so on the top deck, although some people had came fully prepared for the likely cold wind, and thus were able to stay warm. It wasn't all that bad, as long as you were in the sun, as the sun's heat and the wind's cold cancelled each other out.
Unfortunately, it was impossible to hear the tour narration over the noise of the wind, at least on the lower deck, but it probably didn't add anything on top of the information provided by Michael on the coach tour and I've already been to visit Alcatraz on a previous visit to San Francisco.
After the cruise, I went to have lunch at the Boudin bakery. I had a half chicken and chips, which I enjoyed. I declined their dessert menu in favour of visiting the annual Ghirardelli Chocolate Festival just along the road. I didn't pay to get in (you could get lots of free hot fudge sundaes if you went in) but I just had a brownie fudge sundae instead before racing back to my hotel (well, on a #30 bus) and then down to the ballpark for the game.
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