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Bay Area Trip: Part I

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Part I: Golden Gate Bridge and Marin County
Part II: Marin and Sonoma Counties
Part III: Point Reyes National Seashore
Part IV: San Francisco

On the Road to San Francisco

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I took Highway 101 into San Francisco. A shot of me headed into town and two shots of the massive antenna thingy poking through the fog, just south of San Francisco (Sutro Tower).

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For some reason, Hertz provided me with GPS. I did not want one, nor did I pay for one, nor could I actually turn it off. In general, I just ignored what it said, since it tried to mislead and deceive me. The only time I got lost was paying attention to it when it told me to turn.

As I was heading north, towards the Golden Gate Bridge, it got it into its head that I was probably a km or so further north than I really was. It wanted me to turn left NOW, otherwise...well, you can look at the picture and see where it thought I was. The second picture shows where I really was, at the top of a small hill, with only 2 story buildings in the vicinity. It had satellite signials. I was nowhere near the water. It's just a piece of crap.

The Golden Gate Bridge

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As I drove up, it was partially obscurred by the fog, as the three shots show.

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Getting closer, half of the familiar support frame is visible.

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Finally, crossing it, though it is still lost in the clouds. The first shot looking to the north, the second looking east over the bay the the third, again, looking north.

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Having grossed the bridge, I pulled off at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The first shot is of the bridge from the north, looking south. The second is of San Francisco. And the third is a rock just beyond the shore.

Muir Beach—Marin County

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This was a World War II bunker/lookout spot, used in conjunction with a similar post south of San Francisco, to locate ships that might attack the west coast. The two lookouts would get bearings on the ship, and by triangulation, they could determine the location of the ship. The first picture is a plaque explaining this. The next two pictures are the trail on the hills that heads towards the ocean.

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Two pictures of the Pacific coast, and one of rocks in the ocean. It was a very pretty place with only a handful of people around.

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Looking south towards San Francisco, I could see Sutro Tower sticking up through the fog. At this point, it's a good few miles south to get to the city. The last shot follows the path to the end.

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The first shot is of the rocky shore and the ocean. The second is the end of the path at a lookout point at the top of a hill, and the third looks down towards the rocks to a point where the waves come in.

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Another shot of the coastline looking south, and looking north, and the ocean waves hitting some rocks in the water.

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Looking west, beyond the rocks, it's just ocean. And a picture of the actual lookout point.

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A shot of the ocean and waves and rocks, through some Spanish Moss on a tree, and a close-up of the Spanish Moss on a branch.

Mostly Flowers

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The first and third shots are of some funky red/yellow flower and the middle one was of a cool, intensely orange flower.

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A yellow flower, and two shots of a purple flower, with the last one deliberately including my foot in the picture to give an idea of how big the flower really is.

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Another flower that kind of had a succulent or cactus-y look to it, and two shots of a ladybug (which, technically speaking, isn't a flower but is still colorful, so kind of counts in my book).

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The first shot was a self-timer trying to get me and the ocean together, unfortunately I'm just barely visible in the left edge of the picture. But it's a pretty vista, so I took a picture of it without me. And finally, as I was heading back to my car, I took a picture of the hill I had to climb up to get back to the car.

Nick's Cove

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In the parking lot, across the street from the restaurant, there were some weird flowers growing. They were red on top and yellow on the bottom and looked like some sort of bottle brush. It's acutally yellow when the flowers open and red when they are still closed. I have two shots of them, a normal shot and a close-up.

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Next to the restaurant was a small beach. There were buoys tied up to a fence and were very colorful. I took a few pictures of them.

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Another shot of all the buoys. And one of a bunch of empty clam shells in a circle on the beach. Perahps I had stumbled onto "clamhenge."

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The Nick's Cove pier had a fish hanging from the entranceway. So here's a shot of the fish and a shot of the whole pier.

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Finally two shots looking down the pier, while standing under the big fish.

Part I: Golden Gate Bridge and Marin County
Part II: Marin and Sonoma Counties
Part III: Point Reyes National Seashore
Part IV: San Francisco

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