San francisco
Trip Start
Nov 11, 2007
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Trip End
Ongoing
San Francisco,
California,
United States
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
so to start nicola drove us over to the golden gate bridge and you dont realise how big it is till you go across it, it over a mile long so we only walked to the first main tower bit. its a bit scary lookin over cos its really high and theres phones on it for the crazy dudes that try to commit suicide, they dont even put it on the news any more theres that many!! and theyt all jump facing the city as well instead of the ocean.
well thats enough about suicide! i'll tell you what we got up to for the rest of the time. i cant remember the order of events now but il just blurb it all out.
one of the evenings we hit alcatraz for the night tour around it, its all in the pics, the cells are so small i think about 7ft by 6 or something
bikin action
. so we heard all the stories of the escape attempts and the one from the film "escape from alcatraz" with clint eastwood. so that escape attempt was the only one of the few the they thought made it across the swim to san francisco, but theres no actual proof as they were never found. not many make it as the water is so cold and theres crazy currents around it from the sea coming in. the audio tour was pretty cool as well as the commentary was from past wardens and past prisoners. we had about 2 and a half hours on it so it was plenty of times to walk about and see it all.so i think the next thing we got up to was a bike ride from san fran to tiburon, so its donw the coast a bit and a climb up to the bridge and over to a wee town call sausilito, and then throught there to another place called tiburon which is exactly opposite san fran across the water. the scenery is really nice and we could have done a bike ride through the forests nearby and see some giant red woods but our asses tookin a bit of a hammering(from the bikes!!!!) it was about 16km and neither of us had ride a bike in years. we could have rode back but its uphill all the way back so we said feck that and got the ferry over which was really nice in the sunset. how rosemantic
next main thing was a fishing trip, we had searched a bit for salmon but it was out of season so the only thing going was shark fishing sweet!
cell block h
! so we booked that and booked the trip with don the sole man, classic name. it was an early start we had to get to the dock for 6.15 ehhhh so we got up at 5 bells so wasnt impressed with that but got over it. took about 45 mins to get out to the spot for shark fishing. so the dude showed us wot to do and then beat the rods out. there where only 2 other guys a father an son who were mormons so he was slabbering some religious crap to the sole man who seemed interested enough. apparently they dont drink tea or coffee as caffeine is a drug an there he was beatin the coke into him haha. it didnt take long for the sharkies to start biting. think me and the latch got about 4 or 5 each and the other 2 got the same but the father got a massive leopard shark which was pretty cool. we had about 6 hours altogether which was long enough for us. so we got back to shore and then done a cable car trip down to the bus, they seem dodgy as when your going up but there was a load of people on so they must be safe enough.near the end of the trip we decided to give the zoo a lash, seemed like a good idea at the time but a week later when we got to sydney one of the tigers escaped and killed someone and critically injured 2 others!! apparently is jumped out the enclosure which is about 15 ft with a big drop in front of the wall an the enclosure is about 6 ft drop before the drop. we seen one super crazy tiger that was just walking back and forward in its cell which was about 5ft wide and had sports worn in the floor where it turned and walked to the other side so i bet it was him
classy rooms
.so that was about all of the major events apart from the trips to the abbey pub and fiddlers where tony used to work for some max corona sessions, almost forgot to mention the view from nicolas house which looks down right onto the pacific ocean, i even went mad one day and went for a run along it for about 30mins, i had to stop twice tho haha. well it was a month of corona beforehand!!
we already in sydney now so il have to update this in a few days. next stop blue mountains then up the coast for massive surf action.
Comments
wel
hello there bout time use got this updated. the boozing must be going well. Lucky use didn get your asses bit at the zoo! hope use enjoying your trip up the coast :) tra la k