Just for a change of scenery
Sep. 7th, 2011 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithI found these on my hard drive while looking for the original scans of the previous photos. I strongly believe that photos exist just to be put online, so I am putting them online.
I took these back in September 2002 (with my nice, new film camera just bought for this trip) and scanned them in a couple of years ago, which explains the stupid marks on them.
Alcatraz Island is in San Francisco Bay, about one and half miles off-shore. It was used for a number of purposes including a military fort and a federal prison, the latter obviously being what it's best known for. It closed in the 1960s.
I don't remember much about it now. It might be that staff and their families lived on the island, and one of the problems with the site was getting supplies out from shore, or I might be thinking of somewhere else. So I'll just leave you with the photos.
That's the walkway up from the ferry landing.
And that's an exercise yard, which I seem to recall was rather windy.
Looking across to San Francisco
The lower parts of the island were closed to visitors because it's a nature reserve and it was nesting time for sea birds.
I took these back in September 2002 (with my nice, new film camera just bought for this trip) and scanned them in a couple of years ago, which explains the stupid marks on them.
Alcatraz Island is in San Francisco Bay, about one and half miles off-shore. It was used for a number of purposes including a military fort and a federal prison, the latter obviously being what it's best known for. It closed in the 1960s.
I don't remember much about it now. It might be that staff and their families lived on the island, and one of the problems with the site was getting supplies out from shore, or I might be thinking of somewhere else. So I'll just leave you with the photos.
That's the walkway up from the ferry landing.
And that's an exercise yard, which I seem to recall was rather windy.
Looking across to San Francisco
The lower parts of the island were closed to visitors because it's a nature reserve and it was nesting time for sea birds.
