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Fishing Trip on the San Francisco Bay

·Walnut Creek, California·#boating#bay area#san-francisco#november#fishing
Dark water in the foreground, with a pier and distant city lights and cranes under a sunset sky.

Out the door from Walnut Creek in the dark for a fishing trip on the bay. The city lights were still on across the water when the boat pulled out, and by the time we cleared the Golden Gate the sky had gone flat gray and the swell picked up.

The gulls found us fast and never left. Every time the wake churned up they'd drop in behind the stern, sometimes close enough to nearly land on the rail. A couple of pelicans joined later, gliding along at eye level like they had nowhere else to be.

We worked the water off the Marin headlands most of the day. The fog sat right on top of the ridgeline and never burned all the way off, so the cliffs stayed lit underneath it, all that bare rock dropping straight to the water. Rods out, chain and anchor rattling around the deck between spots.

Coming back in, the bridge appeared through the haze long before we reached it, and then we passed right under the south tower, close enough to look straight up through the cables.

Overcast sky with seagulls flying above choppy gray sea, a boat's wake, and distant land.A boat with a fishing rod in the foreground, two seagulls flying over a choppy ocean with distant misty hills.From a boat, three birds fly over choppy water with an anchor in the foreground and a bridge in the distance.Rocky mountains rise from the ocean, their peaks shrouded in mist under a pale sky.Choppy blue water with distant rugged, reddish mountains partially obscured by low clouds.A blurry dark bird flies above choppy ocean waters with distant mountains and a fishing rod.View from a boat across choppy water towards a distant bridge, hills, and coastline under an overcast sky.Golden Gate Bridge tower and deck viewed from below, with a dark cliff on the left and a seagull.

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