Published: July, 2003 This summer, residents of nine Bay Area counties are invited to tour beautiful Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay at half-price on designated Resident Appreciation Days during the week. Resident Appreciation Days offer locals an excellent opportunity to discover the island’s fascinating history, including its years as the home of Civil […]
By Captain Ray Published: July, 2015 Mare Island is a 3.5-mile long promontory—sometimes a peninsula, sometimes an island—located in the northeast corner of San Pablo Bay. To the east of the island is the Napa River and to the west is San Pablo Bay. It is the rising and falling of tides in the northern […]
BY CHRISTINE E. CORDI Published: May, 2000 The cry of a gull, the slap of a baby whale’s tail on the bay water, the sight of otters frolicking, seals swimming, cormorans in perfect flight formation, and a bevy of heavy beaked pelicans. We visit their world each time our ferry crosses the bay. Our Richmond […]
