San Francisco

Alcatraz & the Golden Gate Bridge

Street Cars





The cable cars carry passengers up the impossibly steep hills of San Francisco since 1873. A cable mechanism operates the system.


Sea Lions at play.

When you reach Pier 39 in San Francisco and head towards the water you can hear the barking of the sea lions. It is so loud. The sea lions are taking over the docks. They started coming to the area shortly after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Some people can't get enough of the sea lions and others can't get far enough away. I personally couldn't get enough of them. I loved watching them fight over their spot on the pier. Biting each other & barking at each other, some even growled at each other. I could have stayed there all day, watching them play.