San Francisco Dairy 6 - Escape from Alcatraz

~My breakfast~

-- cheese and ham bread & hot chocolate-

- Now, it's 07:00 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Transit and Information
Alcatraz tours are very popular and tickets sell out fast.

Location: San Francisco Bay, boats leave from Pier 33

Where you can buy the ticket : ( all the information in this website) call (415) 705-5555. or http://gocalifornia.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=gocalifornia&cdn=travel&tm=34&gps=515_806_1020_582&f=10&su=p284.9.336.ip_p531.39.336.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//alcatrazcruises.com/

Best time to go : Winter is cold, but worst is early summer (late June) when nesting seagulls create a stink.

How long: Allow about 4 hours

Our Transit:

- Berkeley to BART(Berkeley) : ACtransit - free just for me! (Today is my day ^^)

- BART (Berkeley -Embarcadero station) - US$13

- Ticket - US$24.5

~ Take a photo before i broad the boat~

When we arrived here, it's 12:30.

~Inside the boat~

~Pier 33~

~Arriving at the island~

~Inside the jail~

They provide a voice tour which has several languages you can listen.

don't worry about it :)

I took a chinese one~ familiar language in SF

I can't image that how they can live in such a small room.

How small it is!

~the view of whole island~

Url: http://www.alcatrazhistory.com/

Alcatrazhistory is really full of history.

You need to come here, or you can't say that have been to San Francisco.

By the way, I suggest you taking a gauze mask.

Because the small is suck!