We took the bus into San Fran the next day. What a great city. After finding Union Square we soon got our bearings - a compass would come in handy in he US as the street signs include the compass points. There were many tourists around central - we couldn't get over the long cue for a ride on the tram up Nob Hill, a 1 hour wait for a ride. Being from Wellington, we ended up walking to the top of Nob Hill later in the day - took all of 15mins. There is a selection of photos from San Fran on Flickr and a silent video of break-dancing at Fisherman's wharf on YouTube.
We took a cable car to Fishermans Wharf on the San Fran waterfront and boarded a tour boat of the harbour. It took us right out to the Golden Gate bridge and around Alkatraz.
On the way out we passed a group of seals bathing in the sun and were told that we might see sperm whales in the harbour - but not that day. The Golden Gate bridge was amazing up close. Just as impressive was the longer San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which was completed a year before the Golden Gates in 1936. Anyway both were impressive. Going around Alkatraz wasn't as airy as I thought it might be because of all the tourist boats arriving.
Once on land we had some dinner around Pier42, did some shopping etc etc, walked some more back around cenral, did some shopping etc etc and took the late BART back to the area of our hotel. We were flying to Washington the next day, o we relaxed at the hotel for the night.
So that was San Francisco. Or was it....
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