Jeff, a friend of his, and I made a little trip to Angel Island yesterday. It cost us nearly $40 for transportation (yikes), but Jeff is glad we went. That’s good, because we’re on a strict budget and I’m not so sure it was wise. Oh well, that’ll just be our fun for the month.
Angel Island is in San Francisco Bay, a bit north of Alcatraz and rather larger than that famous island. Angel Island was at times a military base and an internment camp for Chinese immigrants and then WWII prisoners of war; now it’s a California state park. The internment camp at China Cove is undergoing renovation and reconstruction until the end of 2006, so we unfortunately were unable to view the historical information there.
We did take a nice hike around the island, up to the top of Mount Livermore (the highest point on the island, though hardly a mountain), which afforded us lovely views of the surrounding Bay. As we rounded the western side of the island, we watched a sailing race on the water below. I forgot my camera, of course, but Jeff’s friend had his. In fact it may be just as well that I forgot mine, since the friend said several times, I’d take a picture if we weren’t facing into the sun,
and then the couple of pictures he did take turned out fuzzy. I guess the day was meant to be remembered, not recorded.
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