Tiburon

I've put quite a lot of photos on this page, so I've used slightly smaller ones that you can click on to see a full-sized image.

Today was a rest day, so I decided to visit Tiburon, which is in the North Bay, across from San Francisco.  The easiest way to get there is by ferry from Pier 41.

There's a marina here too and it's full of expensive-looking yachts.

There's also a lot of very expensive houses looking out over the bay, each one costing over $1.5M according to Jeanne, who I met at the Ferry and Railroad Museum, which is the grey building in the photo.

There used to be an extremely large railroad repair factory, with lots of sidings, in Tiburon.  Jeanne lived in Great Yarmouth and London for many years, working as a teacher, but is now retired back to Tiburon.  Phil (seen in the picture by the door) is one of the people responsible for building a model railway of the yard area, although sadly my picture of that didn't come out.  It has all sorts of details on it, then a few oddities like pink crabs that, if assumed to be to scale, would be bigger than a human adult!

 I chatted to Jeanne for an hour, and we had to stop because it was closing time for the museum at 4pm.

Afterwards, I walked around the main streets of Tiburon for a while until it was time for a ferry back to San Francisco.  It's all well-kept and even has a roundabout!



The return journey was a "commuter" service rather than the "tourist" service.  It was the same price ticket, but it takes you back to the ferry terminal by pier 1 rather than to pier 41.