San Francisco - Warm Cove
Today we decided to go up to the city. A drive of about 60 miles.
Our first stop was Warm Cove. Not many people in San Francisco would even know where that is I guess. I do not recommend it as a place to spend the day. We had never heard of it either until we stumbled across it. We were investigating Hunters Point, which is a not very nice location near the docks. It is full of warehouses, some dilapidate and very run down.
Warm Cove is a small and very scruffy park on the edge of the bay with a huge power plant looming over it. Am I tempting you to visit? There are a lot of signs around forbidding graffiti and saying “do not deface” which gives you some indication of the regular clientèle. (Tom interrupting: spending some time here could yield some great photos. I’d kind of like to explore this area a little more). At this time of the morning though it was abandoned, only the accumulated litter giving evidence that other people use it.
But it was not without its beauty. There were a few flowers around and some cacti and the fragrance of wild fennel. We spent some time watching the egrets looking for food as the tide came in and enjoyed the sight of the sun as it rose over Oakland.
October 28 2007 | Neighborhoods | No Comments »
