Got up early this morning to get ready for a big day.
First thing we got picked up and taken to a tour company office down at Fisherman's Wharf, and then we went on our 'Muir Woods and Sausalito' tour.
Muir Woods basically has lots of coastal redwood trees - glorious tall trees in a lovely (mostly) quiet forest. Today's pictures are obviously from there - some grown-up redwoods and a tiny baby one. Spent about an hour there looking around then off to Sausalito which is a nice little city across the bay from San Francisco. The bus driver suggested that if we wanted to we could get a ferry back to SF, and we decided to do this when we realised that the ferry would drop us off much closer to where we wanted to be.
So, dropped off at the ferry terminal at the end of wharf street, and we walked up to number 575 which is where the Australian Consulate is. They were getting a steady stream of Aussies wanting to vote - which of course is why we were there. So, we've now done our civic duty.We spoke to 4 other people in the building outside of the consulate, and they all instantly identified us as Australians and said so to us. Mind you it's not a real surprise, we're deliberately cultivating the 'tourist' look!
Then, we came back to the diner across the street from the hotel - Lori's Diner, all set up in 1950's style. Food as usual for restaurants here - excellent, but far too much of it!
Then, back to our room to pick up a box of souvenirs and books to be posted home. Stood in line at UPS for about 20 minutes, but it's all sent now - so that's about 5 kilos less that we have to fit into our luggage tonight!
Then, we went for a long long walk to Union Square, through the Westfield Centre, back around a couple of extra streets and including two Border's stores.
Finally got home a few minutes ago and I'm exhausted - I'm pretty sure we got our planned 5 ks of walking done today :-)
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