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Leaving the Oakland Inner Harbor: maritime homes. |
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Always alert and always ready... |
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Gigantic trans-Pacific cargo vessels are being unloaded |
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Part of the Bay Bridge that connects SF with Oakland, Berkeley, and
the rest of the East Bay. |
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Six-lane traffic into the city pays $2 per vehicle and flows on the
top level. Returning traffic passes through the bottom level for free.
The BART goes underneath
the Bay, in a tunnel. |
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Part of Yerba
Buena Island. The section of Bay Bridge that continues on the
other side (not shown) is falling apart, so construction has begun
of a replacement bridge from Oakland to the island. |
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Cloudy, somewhat grim view of the city. |
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The former immigration station in
Angel Island, the West-Coast counterpart of New York's Ellis Island.
Thousands of immigrants were detained here; the facility was also
used as a POW camp during WWII. |
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Finally, the sun comes out! |
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Approaching the north part of the bay |
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Somewhere in Marin County, I think. |
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The Golden Gate Bridge. As advertised, half-covered in mist! |
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A funny hut on Angel Island's north-west side. I wonder if anyone
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Capt. Greenlee is taking us to Alcatraz! |
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Quite charming, wouldn't you say?... |
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Tourists, packed in a miserable bark, on their journey of self-imposed
internment. ;-) |
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Today the island is a national park. That's why the Ritz hasn't acquired
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No manipulations were performed to this image. |
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Making a brief landing in Richmond, in the northern East Bay. The
town - typical mass-produced suburbia - was extremely ugly and boring,
but this Lain-ian
pole caught my attention. |
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Speeding back to Oakland. At this point I got nervous about the increasing
water turbulence, our high speed, and the heavy traffic around the
bridge, so I returned control of the boat to Travis. Interestingly,
one needs no license or certificate of any type to operate a boat! |
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Now this is beautiful. Click here
for a larger version of this photo (1280x960, 342kb) |
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When raised, the Port of Oakland's cranes look like strange, eerie
creatures out of a sci-fi movie. This was the last impression from
this trip, followed by a somewhat complicated but successful docking.
More trips--and photos!--will follow soon. |
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