Another WW from my stay in San Francisco, after my DH was done with his conference activities, we took the long way home and stopped off for a little walk about in Fort Mason. We parked right along the water in the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park.

As you near the top of the short hill, there's a great view where you can see the Golden Gate Bridge with the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture down below. This was formerly the U.S. Army embarkation docks and has been repurposed for civilian use like so many other military installations.

Really affecting artwork, we are really lucky that the whole city is filled with his works, the SF Chronicle did a video where they have photos of 58 of his public pieces.
We were surprised to find that there's a really lovely little place in the International Hostel at the top of the hill, Cafe Franco. Yes that's a view of the Golden Gate Bridge from their back porch. The coffee and sandwich that we ordered was great and very cheap. Just remember, you have to do your own dishes, it's the hostel-way. How fun would it be to stay in this hostel though?!
We checked out the big wide views from up on the hilltop. DH is there on the right doing his own panoramic photo.
Got a very good view of the old curving walking pier that's unfortunately too earthquake and ship crash damaged to be open for walking, and there's Alcatraz Island in the distance. Someday I'll go there!
and then we walked back down the hill through the Black Point Historical Gardens. This is a community project where volunteers are removing invasive plants and re-planting the gardens with California natives and other plants.
Even tucked into the stone walls.
It was hard to pick which direction to go, there were so many choices.
Some very fancy irises were blooming.
Even tucked into the stone walls.
It was hard to pick which direction to go, there were so many choices.
Some very fancy irises were blooming.
Here's one of my favorite natives that I keep meaning to plant at home, California Flannelbush or (Fremontodendron californicum).
Isn't it beautiful? The ants sure seemed to love it.
It's a very steep hillside so the terracing and criss-crossing walkways were really welcoming instead of a long set of stairs straight down.
What a zillion $ view, right from our car! Honestly, it was hard to leave.