All you need to know about the Yelp-rated lighthouse at Point Bonita is right here.
Did the lighthouse keeper’s wife really tie up the kids on a leash when they played outside to keep them from falling into the ocean? That’s the story, anyway.
Click to expand
Looks like that house might get sprayed with salt water sometimes.
See you there!
What can you see here looking north from the 17th hole of the inexpensive and much-discussed Lincoln Park Golf Club (aka “Stinkin’ Lincoln”)? Well, there’s the teeing area, of course, but you can also see the Golden Gate and the Point Bonita Lighthouse, as well the houses of Muir Beach City and a good chunk of western Marin County.
Click to expand:
And when you get to the green, you get a nice view of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Not too shabby for just $1-something per hole, huh?
“Until the 1840s the strait was called the “Boca del Puerto de San Francisco” (Mouth of the Port of San Francisco). On 1 July 1846, before the discovery of gold in California, the entrance acquired a new name. In his memoirs, John C. Frémont wrote, “To this Gate I gave the name of “Chrysopylae”, or “Golden Gate“; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn”
Marincello is the City That Never Was.
“Marincello was a failed development project in Marin County, California that would have put a metropolis full of homes, apartments, and hotels in a planned community atop the Marin Headlands, overlooking the Golden Gate. Its upheaval set the precedent for Marin County’s rigid anti-development stance and push for open space.”
See lots of large posters like this at SPUR’s new Urban Center at 654 Mission in the SoMA.
It would have been like another Sausalito:
Getting water might have been a problem.
Oh well.
The Marin Headlands overlook near the Golden Gate Bridge was the site of Pico the Dog’s rubber chicken photo shoot.
Click to expand:
via mylerdude, 120K views so far…
Keep jumping, Pico!
The traffic light controlling the western entrance of the Bunker Road Tunnel in the Marin Headlands makes you wait five whole minutes. Why? Because it only has one lane for cars, so traffic goes west for a few minutes and then east and then back again, all day long.
There’s another way back to the Golden Gate Bridge but it’s a whole lot hillier.
After a long countdown, the green light appears. Click to expand:
And here’s your reward, after all the wait. Some people love it, while others get irritated: “Stop braking. Stop it, stop it.”
All in all, a fine tunnel. Look for it between Cavallo Point and Rodeo Cove the next time you’re in the Sausalito area.
