And then, a while later, a couple tugs pull a decommissioned vessel south … to dry dock? to repair? to ???
February 6, 2009
January 21, 2009
Home again, home again, riggety jig.
Four crab boats had finished off-loading at the wharf and came out of the small harbor and split in different directions. These two were headed off thataway soon to be home again, home again.
January 19, 2009
Fishermen’s and Seamen’s Chapel
The chapel is “a memorial to the fishermen and seamen who have braved cold waves, blinding fog and howling winds. It was built between 1978 and 1981 on the former site of an old Coast Guard building.”
(Picture taken from Jefferson Street, between Jones and Taylor.)
October 21, 2008
October 5, 2008
And feather canyons everywhere*
Tom Perkins is out in Maltese Falcon, cruising around.
That’s a BIG yacht.
* “Both Sides Now” – Joni Mitchell
[Sour Grapes posted a beautiful cloud picture over at his place.]
And ice cream castles in the air*
Lovely clouds. With luck we’ll have more rain. With luck the weather cleared up and stayed sunny in bucolic Kern County, CA, for first-cousin-once-removed Davy’s wedding this afternoon.
[view of the N bay from Pacific Heights]
* “Both Sides Now” – Joni Mitchell
October 4, 2008
Our visitor yesterday
Left this morning.
This is the time of year when the cruise ships move south for the winter, from Alaska routes to Mexican routes. Our ville is a stop off point and has been having heavy cruise ship activity (sometimes three berths in use) for the last month or so.
July 23, 2008
Festival of Sail kicks off with parade of ships at noon today
We live where we can see the water because his nibs wanted to see boats, boats, boats!
And we do.
The Festival of Sail kicks off at noon today with a parade of ships sailing in through the Golden Gate.
I’ll be downtown for lunch with his nibs and will miss the ship parade, but I’ve been enjoying some of the runup this morning.
Shown:
[1] The fire boats serving San Francisco Fire Department from the Bay spray a welcome for an incoming military ship.
[2] Some masts over by the Ferry Building. And a ferry, and a docked dinner cruise ship. The Delta Queen, the largest of the dinner cruise ships on this side of the Bay, has been docked elsewhere to free up some room for the wooden ships to dock. The ships will open for tours starting tomorrow. We’ve been enjoying views of a two masted ship, docked at Pier 19 since we got back.
[3] Another smaller boat.
May 28, 2008
Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main*
Spotted last evening before sunset.
Note UCBerkeley campanille in the east bay hills behind Treasure Island at about 10 o’clock.
*Geoffrey Marks, 1880.