As you may have seen in my photos, SF seems to suffer from fog and low level marine cloud on a regular basis. The locals do call FOG a season here. Better that than winter though. Or even summer maybe. Mark Twain is supposed to have said "the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." My first day on the double decker we went across the Golden Gate, I could not see the top of the bridge even when we were on the bridge. Hopefully I will get a better photo in the next couple of days.
San Francisco is noted for quite a few things - Alcatraz, redwoods, the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, and the Lombard St - the world's most crooked street.
Today I did a tour of Muir Woods and then Alcatraz. Muir Woods is a area that is a National Monument (similar to National Park but created by less paperwork). It is an area protected for it's old-growth redwoods. Of the three major species of redwoods, the Coastal Redwood is the tallest. The current tallest (although not in this area) is just under 379ft tall ! The ones you may have seen where you can drive though are further up the coast and I will not get to them before I leave.
Another thing, down at Pier 39, are the Barking Sea Lions that congregate there.
You can see a video of these along with more photos if you follow the link on the right hand side of the page.
Guess what - I just felt an earthquake !! Happened about 90mins ago and I just turned on the news and they are saying it was a 3.8 in Berkeley, north of Oakland. I am only 16km away ! The room really shook. Felt like a very large truck or train went by.It was a little uncomfortable. I was listening for alarms etc but none eventuated, so I ignored it. I am on the 8th floor though ! Seems like there was also one earlier today, hmmm ..........
SF had a pretty large quake in 1906. Most of the buildings were destroyed. One survived in downtown SF - it did suffer - but I won't say how - hope to get a picture to show the results !
Later
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