Not to be confused with the Disneyesque Farallon Restaurant on Post Street, the Farallones can only be seen from San Francisco on the clearest of days.
Atop Southeast Farallon Island is the Farallon Island Light, barely visible even in this magnified photo.
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There’s a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
North of Mission Bay and South of Market is where you’ll find the houseboats of Mission Creek.
You can look at them and ponder their future while exploring the new Mission Creek Park. The residents here have a lot to adjust to what with all the new visitors, and the new condo buildings, and the new UCSF Mission Bay complex.
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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches 5
and then moves on.
The formerly-controversial Sutro Tower, as seen from the northwest through the window of an Emirates Airbus A380 super jumbo jet.
See the entire Sutro Tower mise-en-scene here, courtesy of Telstar Logistics’ Todd Lappin.