#San Francisco bay

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Golden Gate Bridge Close-Up

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

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Western Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra over the Golden Gate Bridge postcard.

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#planespotting #aviación #aviacion #avión #avion #Luftfahrt #Flugzeuge

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The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic on November 12, 1936.

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Bay Bridge at Sunset San Francisco Bay August 2023

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Plonk

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San Francisco Bay Mine Shaft (#202040 to #202020)

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Mare Island Submarine

Photograph showing the conning tower of a World War II submarine as her periscope appears to cleave the sky above.  Over 500 ships were built during the 142 years Mare Island Naval Shipyard served the Nation.  Those ships ranged from wooden hulled sidewheeler gunboats to a massive battleship, but it was because of the shipyard’s expertise with the complexities of submarine construction that it became known as a submarine yard in later years.  All but one of the Mare Island built ships have fallen victim to scrappers torches or they lie on the ocean bottom, victims of the sea or enemy action.  The USS Silversides (SS-236) is the lone surviving ship.   She is a museum ship in, of all places, Muskegon Michigan. She is a Gato Class fleet-type submarine built at Mare Island just prior to the outbreak of World War II. She was christened by Mrs. James J. Hogan, wife of Dr. Hogan, Vallejo's civilian representative in Washington, and founder of Council No. l, Navy League, in Vallejo. Dr. Hogan was convinced that Mare Island was Vallejo's lifeblood, and he was one of its most effective champions until his death in 1942. Silversides was launched on August 26, 1941, and she was commissioned one week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Silversides departed on her first war patrol on April 30, 1942, for which she was credited with sinking four ships and damaging one. She went on to establish one of the top submarine combat records in the Pacific.  Her record reflected more war patrols than all but 5 submarines, while sinking the third greatest number of ships (23), totaling 145,400 tons. During these patrols, the quality of her construction allowed her to escape undamaged following seventeen counterattacks by the Japanese where a total of 163 depth charges were dropped. Following the war, Silversides was towed up the Mississippi River with her superstructure removed to permit passing under bridges. She then became the submarine training ship at Great Lakes Training Station where she continued to serve until 1969. She has been on display at the USS Silversides Submarine Museum in Muskegon, Michigan since 1987. 

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Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

A generation of Richmond’s children, now grown, took to San Francisco Bay in nearly five dozen kayaks Sunday morning, in the shadow of Chevron’s massive refinery, headed for tankers controlled by the oil giant in an act of resistance, prayer and joy. 

After singing a ceremonial song led by a local Indigenous leader, activists launched their kayaks around 9:30 a.m. from the shores of Point Molate, 20 miles north of San Francisco, to protest the environmental and health harms caused by Chevron’s Richmond Oil Refinery. 

By noon, a core group of the Rich City Rays, a coalition of grassroots community groups based in Richmond, a San Francisco suburb where most residents are Asian, Black or Latino, had entered restricted waters alongside two giant tankers docked at the Chevron Long Wharf. Once activists in about 20 kayaks had jockeyed into position, side by side, they unfurled a banner with “Abolish Chevron” written in bright red letters, as the rest of the flotilla erupted in cheers.

Tankers unload crude oil from around the world at Chevron’s Long Wharf, the largest marine oil terminal in California, and pick up petroleum products processed at its refinery, including lubricants, gasoline, jet and diesel fuel. The refinery processes about 250,000 barrels of crude oil a day and transports refined products to the wharf via pipeline. 

The Rich City Rays embrace kayaking as a form of nonviolent protest to raise awareness about the disproportionate harm oil development, from extraction to refining, causes communities of color like Richmond. The “kayaktivists” deploy their crafts as vessels for social change in nonviolent actions designed to call attention to the global reach, and harm, of the oil giant that operates in their backyard. 

“A lot of us are young people who don’t know a time before climate change,” said Alfredo Angulo, an organizer of the Rich City Rays who just turned 24 and uses they/them pronouns. 

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perfectly camouflaged

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Doors at Alcatraz

San Francisco, California

Bob Cronk

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a bridge

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Golden Gate Bridge groundbreaking ceremony held at Crissy Field on February 26, 1933.

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Watching the ships go by.