Sunday, 6 February 2011

San Francisco and Alcatraz

Have just done the urban safari tour.  Here is the bus and driver.  He must have the longest dreadlocks ever. There were 13 people on the bus and they were all Australians apart from me and Martin.





 

Here are Martin and me by the Golden Gate. We are wearing pith helmets as we are on safari. Mark please note we are in short sleeves, the sky is blue and no sign of fog anywhere!



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We went around the city and the streets really are as steep as they look in films.  We saw where Mrs Doubtfire was filmed and many other films and of course the Tropicana advert.

We stopped at the Golden Gate of course and there are marks on the wall for joggers to touch to show they got this far and there are also paw marks underneath for the dog to touch too.



The city is an odd mixture of old and new.  Here is city hall with a new sculpture donated by China to show the conflict between new and old values.







Some of the houses have great murals on the side



We went across to Alcatraz in the afternoon.  This is a only 12 minute ferry ride but must have been very daunting for the prisoners who had no way out.




The prison was closed in 1963 but occupied by Indians (Native Americans) in the 70s to protest about losing their lands.

Here is Radish in a cell in Alcatraz




After returning to the mainland we went to Fisherman's Wharf and watched the sealions who are just basking on a pontoon in the harbour




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