ON OUR COVER September 2010

Bay Crossings Journal

Published: July, 2001 It’s two o’clock in the morning. I’m awake. The hollow light of faraway streetlights illumine the sky between my boat and Oakland. A filmy cover protects the stars. I can’t tell as I sit up and look through the hatch of my sailboat whether it’s fog or lowlying clouds. That is, until […]

"THERE ARE MORE THINGS…"

By Captain Ray Published: November, 2016   I have seen many strange and wonderful things while sailing, and have often been reminded of these words Shakespeare wrote for Hamlet:   “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet (act 1, scene 5, lines 167-8)   […]

QUICK FACTS

 Published: June, 2005 Courtesy of John Frawley, Aquarium of the bay The San Francisco Bay watershed constitutes an area that includes over 40 percent of California and extends into Oregon. Nearly 400 billion gallons of water flows through the Golden Gate Strait each day, due to the Pacific’s strong rising and falling tides. Great White […]