San Francisco is a beautiful city surrounded by the ocean.
In order to help us to see and experience more of this beautiful ocean front city, S. rented a Zip car for the afternoon. The Zip Car is a popular new self served car rental company providing easy access to vehicles placed in numerous locations throughout a city and renting the vehicles by the hour.
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| Ocean Beach, San Francisco - a beautiful spot to visit |
He came and picked us up at around 6pm from the hotel on Market Street.
He drove us to visit Ocean Beach, the beach area in San Francisco fronting the Pacific Ocean.
There were a lot of people at the Ocean Beach, a beautiful place to watch the sunset.
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| The sunset view at Ocean Beach was spectacular! |
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| Cliff House - a popular restaurant overlooking the cliffs |
S. wanted to take us for dinner at the Cliff House to enjoy the sunset by the cliff.
A popular place, the restaurant gave out a machine with a beeping sound to inform each waiting customer who carried this device with them during the wait.
However, the wait was about 45 minutes to an hour.
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| S. standing on the top of one of the ocean rocks by the Pacific Ocean |
Instead of waiting for almost an hour, we decided to go to another restaurant close by instead so that we could have more time to explore the area.
S. climbed up to one of the big rocks on the ocean front.
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| Hiking on the Coastal Trail |
We hiked on the trail along the ocean front and went down to the tunnel.
We ventured into the tunnel and were careful not to step into any holes.
It was a short walk into the tunnel before we reached the end of the tunnel.
The tunnel opened up to an open view of the Pacific Ocean.
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| A different view at the end of the tunnel at Ocean Beach, San Francisco |
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| Lands End Lookout, San Francisco |
Walking through the dark tunnel, we saw a building on top of the cliff; we continued our hike to the top.
After climbing up the stairs, we reached a lookout point called Lands End and learned more about this beautiful place from the information posted at the Lookout point.
" Lands End is the wildest, rockiest corner of San Francisco - a corner strewn with shipwrecks and a history of landslides.
At the tip of Lands Ends is Point Lobos, named by the Spanish for its many lobos marinos ( sea wolves), otherwise known as sea lions, whose barks drifted up from the rocks below. The sea lions have since relocated to the calmer waters of San Francisco Bay.
Trails of Lands End offers a cliff top walk through dark cypress and open grass and offer 30 mile view up and down the California coast." Taken from Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
For more on the Sea Lions, please see my blog about them at:
http://rtam1206.blogspot.ca/2013/04/pier-39-free-family-attraction-for.html
We saw some brave souls walking along the trail hugging the Pacific Ocean.
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| Sutro Baths ruins, Lands End, San Francisco |
Some were so close to the waves that we were afraid they might be swept away to the ocean by some unexpected huge waves.
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| Murals on the ground floor of the Beach Chalet |
After the walk along the Coastal Trail, we were ready for a good meal.
We drove to the Beach Chalet, a stone throw away from Lands End for dinner,
The Beach Chalet was also filled with patrons waiting to get a table.
We waited and I wandered downstairs to admire the murals adorning the walls of the ground floor of the building.
We didn't get the window seats. But it was getting dark and we would not be able to see much anyway.
We ordered soup, S. and I had sole while S. ordered salmon. The food was very good but the place was too busy therefore the service was disappointing. Our waiter mixed up our drinks, gave S. the wrong main course, therefore he had to wait another 20 minutes and we did not even get any bread with our meal.
S dropped us off and went to visit his friend in Silicon valley with a bottle of wine. We had some good conversation and learned more about his work.
We called the travel agency to cancel the rest of our stay for the hotel.
It was a really fun day with my loved ones!
R.T.
Ocean Beach and Lands End
San Francisco, USA
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