Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 15 hours
This short cruise on the bay was, well, pleasant. Especially, and I repeat, when you have the chance to "see" something, like today. That is to say, when there is not that famous fog that covers and feature the bay and the Golden Gate and the city in general!
You may have noticed, there were just a little cloud on top of the towers of the bridge to look pretty in the photo.
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| Whether or Audubon California, the gull we welcome |
There are about 100 days of fog on the peninsula during the year, mainly during summer and early fall. I told you, it never gets very hot in San Francisco: the average annual temperature is about 14 ° C, while the maximum reading is 20 ° C in September / October.
Hervé gives us about twenty minutes before taking the bus. There is much to see in the neighborhood.
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| a cart in front of the bakery Boudin |
Here, for example the famous Boudin Bakery . Without being chauvinistic [although sometimes you wonder], you may be interested to learn that it was founded exactly one hundred years before my birth by a Burgundian named Isidore Boudin. Yes, I know, it was not won with a name like that ...
And yet, with its know-how, when the gold rush, as he had to feed all these hungry researchers who flocked from all over, his case was immediately successful. And then, his specialty, precisely, to Isidore was the sourdough bread, authentic French recipe he inherited from his parents! With a little more time, you can visit the museum open every afternoon. Know that it is always the same yeasts and especially some of the original pulp that are used daily in this "Original San Francisco Sourdough French bread.
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| The colony of sea lions [Zalophus californianus] |
On the Waterfront, you can see many seagulls of course ... Uh, sorry we said gulls, as it seems, there is the French name for that of the gulls. They are California gulls [Larus californicus] and all along the docks, there are some who are posing.
But here it is also another specialty, I have appointed the sea lions, or always to be more precise, the sea lions These pinnipeds have become accustomed to squat a few years ago the docks of Pier 39. So that the authorities decided to forbid access to boats at this place! Impossible to miss, especially when we hear them barking in disputing a place in the sun ...
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| There are still some places for seagulls! |
The first sea lions arrived in January 1990, in fact, a few months after the earthquake of 1989. At first they were only a few dozen, but since they were here in abundance of food, especially because they were protected, we counted 300 very quickly a few months later.
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| The California sea lions basking in the sun |
In winter, there would be close to a thousand, most of whom are male. In summer, much migrates south to the Channel Islands off Los Angeles for the breeding season. But there is still a good little group which are of course one of the local attractions, not to say the mascots of Pier 39.
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| The street artist is, no doubt, very ... Brilliant! |
This little interlude allowed me to present some wildlife officials noticed the edge of Fisherman's Wharf. They live freely in this neighborhood and to the delight of tourists and ... photographers. Well, I grant you, horses are a bonus, but these, too ... for the enjoyment of visitors, I guess!
And already, it is Time to continue our city tour!
No, no, let's be serious, we will not all fit in this carriage. The walk should be probably very nice, but I leave you instead.
The horsepower them purr already when we sit on the bus.
Go, hop, here we go! Everybody? Go!
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