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Holiday Lights Published: November, 2015 PIER 39 PIER 39 invites you to join some special friends from the Disneyland Resort at the annual PIER 39 Tree Lighting Celebration on Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22. They’re bringing a little bit of holiday cheer from the Happiest Place on Earth, where the 60th Diamond Celebration is […]
Published: November, 2015 Nov. 1 Times Vary – Sunday Sunset Sail- Schooner Freda B, Sausalito, 415-331-0444, schoonerfredab.com Sail on San Francisco Bay on Sunday evening for a spectacular sunset sail and enjoy the many beautiful landmark sites with us from the deck of a beautiful classic schooner, including Angel Island, the Golden Gate Bridge, […]
By Paul Duclos Published: November, 2015 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are now presenting Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition, on view at the de Young from October 17 through January 10, 2016. Celebrating the centennial of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco, this exhibition revisits a […]
By Bill Picture Published: November, 2015 The Port of Oakland announced last month that TraPac, one of four terminal operating companies at the port, has been awarded money by the Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade cargo-handling equipment in a further effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions along the waterfront. The $277,885 grant will be used […]
BC Staff Report Published: November, 2015 In June, Bay Crossings reported that a temporary rock barrier across a Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta channel was constructed due to potentially insufficient water supplies to repel salinity in the Delta. San Rafael-based Dutra Group installed the single emergency salinity barrier across West False River and has now begun removing […]
BC Staff Report Published: November, 2015 If you have been travelling by ferry over the last month, chances are you’ve seen some recent dredging and maintenance activities being performed at the ferry terminals in Vallejo, Larkspur and San Francisco. In Vallejo, the passenger float at the end of the gangway was removed to allow for […]
By Mallory Johnson Published: November, 2015 Sharks are an integral species that play an important role in our ecosystems. Even though sharks have been around for over 400 million years, there’s still a lot about these prehistoric animals that remains a mystery. For example, last month, we presciently published a story about white sharks occasionally […]
By Tomas Sarnicola Published: October, 2015 The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary—the volunteer, civilian branch of the U.S. Coast Guard—recently began helping to patrol San Pablo Bay as part of a partnership with the Richmond Police Department’s Marine Unit. This is not the auxiliary’s first patrol assignment. Members also patrol Lake Sonoma and Lake Berryessa, the […]
By Bill Picture Published: October, 2015 Sea level rise isn’t a possibility, it’s an inevitability—and one with which waterfront communities still seem to be struggling. Reporters at the San Francisco Pubic Press were curious how current predictions about rising sea levels are figuring into plans for new construction projects in the Bay Area, so […]
By David McGuire Published: October, 2015 Shark! The fin breaks the surface of the San Francisco Bay beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, and the stunned swimmer suddenly turns and scrambles frantically away, seeking to escape the unseen predator. A scene out of Jaws? The fin turns out to be a flipper of a curious sea […]