20070207 Golden Gate Bridge & Sausalito

We pass Golden Gate Bridge - pictures db

On the North, at Fort Baker, is a little Harbour with nice view on the bridge. see pictures wv: 20070209 026.jpg.

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Here we observe:
- 1 “walrus”-like mammal - most probably a sea elephant.
- 1 Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata
- a group of 70 - 90 Scoup Aythya spec. - pictures wv 20070209 036.jpg - check Greater or Lesser

- 1 Horned Grebe Podiceps auritus
- 3 Bufflehead Bucephala albeola, like our Goldeneye, but with darker head and white stripe over it.
- 15 American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos

A little bit more North in the Bay we see:
- Scoup Aythya spec. - a group of ± 10.
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata - ± 50 (male with orange-yellow bill and white spot at the front of the head and at the back of the neck; female brown).
- Cormorant Phalacrocorax spec. - hundreds of coming from the centre of the Bay and flying in the direction of the Ocean in large lines.
- Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis - 1.

We visit the small town of Sausalito on the border of the Bay.
- Visitor Information Centre with nice exhibition on the history of the town.
- Supermarket Mollie Stone's
- “Bay Model”: a scale model of San Francisco Bay more or less like our Delft (later NOP) based “Waterloopkundig Lab” in a big building on the waterside that was formerly used to repair navy ships or someting like that.