Archive for 'marin'
Oil spills, volunteers, and the San Francisco Bay Area
Today beaches near the Golden Gate are closed as a noxious oil spill is washing up against the shore. A large South Korean-based Hanjin container ship struck one of the supports of the Bay Bridge and released oil into the bay from a damaged tank. According to Caltrans engineers the bridge got the better of [...]
Posted: November 8th, 2007 under birds, community, history, marin.
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Biking the San Francisco Bay
Biking the San Francisco coast is a great idea (in the dry season), and Suite101 published an article about the subject a few years ago. It’s not a bad little piece, although the title, “Cycling the Coast in San Francisco,” is not very accurate. The author, Jill Florio, doesn’t bike the coast at all, but [...]
Posted: October 30th, 2007 under bay, getting around, marin.
Comments: 1