Alcatraz

We headed into San Fran a little weary, all the excitement of Silicon Valley had us feeling that there was nothing more worthwhile seeing. But we were wrong!

After dropping the car at the Motel (there are no early check ins at this motel) we headed into town to take a look around. We walked most of the way down Market street - which turns out to be a really long street. Tony's Apple GPS directed us to the Apple store (for the second time) where we proceeded to drool over the new Nano's (again) and found out that the new mac books would arrive the next day.

After scouting around a little we headed back up to our end of town for an early dinner, and some crap TV.

Today we got up and headed over to Fishermans Wharf to look into a bus tour and Alcatraz. We walked the length of the wharfs just because we could and because it was a lovely day and it was all rather pretty.

Lunch was next on the list Tony wanted to go to Hooters, but we couldn't find it, so we settled on a nice place on Pier 39.


We found the seals at the end of the Pier, they were loud and smelly, but rather entertaining, I ended up taking heaps of photo's until we couldn't stand the smell any longer!

Onto Alcatraz. Because we had arrived off season, we were able to get tickets on the next boat out to what used to be a prision on an island in the middle of the San Fran Bay. Everytime I look at the island or hear the name I totally think of Harry Potter and Azkaban.

After listening to an orientation video, we headed up into the main cell block. We were given an audio tour (it was included in the price, you didn't really ahve much choice) which told you all about the cell block, the escape
attempts and the wardens areas. It was really enlightening, they liked to tell us about Al Capone as much as possible, but I guess this was the main claim to fame.

When Tony started getting really cold (that's what happens when you don't bring a jumper) we decided it was time to head back to shore.

Alcatraz was everything I expected it to be, and the photo's you could take of the San Fran skyline were fun... Well these ones were anyhow... you have no idea how many shots it took before we got San Fran in the back ground!