How can you say you’ve seen San Francisco and not have gone out on the Bay? Let’s be honest. One of the best ways to frame one of the most magnificent scenes on Planet Earth is to take a ferryboat over to Tiburon from the city.
As you disembark at Tiburon dock look straight ahead and see this reporter’s favorite Mexican restaurant anywhere. Guaymas is Pacific Coast Mexican fare, a bit sweeter, a little more liberated that the Tex-Mex of my Lone Star State roots.
If there’s one thing that eclipses the menu at Guaymas, it’s the otherworldly view of the San Francisco Bay as it disappears into a surrealistically sun-suffused fog bank. Order a second margarita and behold.
After lunch take the Angel Island Tiburon Ferry over to Angel Island. Where the prisoners of another Bay island, Alcatraz, would stare across the water and wonder how they’d ever get off the rock, you’ll gaze across it and ask why you’d ever want to leave Angel.
Hike to the top of Mt. Livermore, stroll the paved Perimeter Road. On a clear day, you can spy all five Bay Area bridges.
Take the ferry back to your hotel in San Francisco before day’s end, sated and ready for the night ahead.
Story by Jerry Chandler
(Image: Blue & Gold Fleet)
