Marin County tourists

We spent yesterday being driven round her home territory by Jeanne. She grew up in the area North of the Golden Gate Bridge and has come back to her roots.







This is a view from the waterfront in Sausalito, one of the towns on the North side of San Francisco Bay. That's the Bay Bridge from SF to Oakland in the background.






And this is the view looking the other way. Apparently you can't move for trippers in the summer.





This is one for Susan's collection of strange signs. (It's an outdoor ashtray in case you're wondering.)







This is the two tourists in front of a local landmark, closed until May sadly. It used to be the terminus of a railway system linking the railways from Northern California to the ferries to San Francisco, aka 'The City'. The bay must have been a considerable obstacle until the Golden Gate and Bay bridges were built in the late Thirties.





This is the deckhouse of the 'China', preserved when the ship itself was scrapped in a local shipbreaker's in the 1870s. The inside is very ornate and the structure was used as somebody's house for a long time.







You might be able to read the signs if you blow it up. The photo is is of the 'greatest shipbuilder of the mid-nineteenth century' - no, not Brunel!