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Sunny Weekend by the Bay in San Francisco

·San Francisco, California·#bay area#san-francisco#daily-life#embarcadero#bay-bridge
An elevated view of a dense cityscape featuring a prominent ornate skyscraper, numerous buildings, a bridge, and a bay.

Weekend in San Francisco, and the morning started high up downtown — a flag snapping on top of the old PacBell tower, the Bay Bridge just visible in the haze between buildings, construction cranes everywhere south of Market. From up there it was obvious where the day should go, so we walked down toward the water.

The Embarcadero was busy the way it gets on a warm Sunday. At Pier 14 there's a big stainless steel sculpture near the entrance, all bent tubes branching out from a central column with yellow glass tips on the ends, and the Bay Bridge lines up right behind it across the water. The pier itself runs a long way out into the bay; the sign at the entrance says the original was built in the early 1900s for cargo, with ten ferry slips just north of it. Part of the walkway was blocked off with police tape, so we stayed near the railing instead.

Sailboats were working back and forth in front of Yerba Buena Island, and close in, two rotted pilings stuck up out of the water with rusted rebar sprouting from the tops.

A large, intricate metal sculpture with yellow details stands by water, with a suspension bridge and distant land in the background.A shiny, tree-like metal sculpture with yellow accents stands by a bay and suspension bridge under a blue sky.An informational sign stands beside a pier leading to a suspension bridge over water under a clear sky.A sign for Pier 14 stands on a concrete path overlooking a bay with a long pier and a suspension bridge.Boats sail on water with a suspension bridge, a treed island, and two wooden posts in the foreground.Two old pilings in the foreground, with a large bridge, an island, and sailboats on the water under a clear sky.The San Francisco Bay Bridge spans across the water behind a tree-covered island, with several sailboats and two posts in the foreground.A bay with a large suspension bridge, a tree-covered island, several sailboats, and two weathered pilings.

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