Ocean Beach

For my final day in San Francisco, I took a trip to Ocean Beach.  This is a fairly simple trip from Oakland, as it's a BART trip to San Francisco, and then a Muni Metro to the coast.  I usually use the 'N' train along Judah to the coast, but today I took the SF Zoo train 'L' along Taravel instead.  It turns out it's much quicker than the 'N', just 30 minutes, instead of around 45.

The wind was incredibly strong today.

If you look closely at the top picture, particularly when the van is parked, you can just about see the cloud of sand blowing in.

It was quite painful to walk through from time to time along the top of the cliff, and I had to shield my face with my hat too.


Fortunately, once you got down onto the beach itself, on the sea side of the loose sand, the sandblasting effect disappeared.  It was still very blowy.  You can see how rough the Pacific Ocean was too although the seagulls didn't seem to mind.

I had taken a towel from the hotel to sit on, and so was able to sit on the beach for a while just watching the waves - by the time they got to the beach, they were very gentle, despite the wind.

The tide was coming in, so as soon as it started getting closer, I packed everything up and went back off the beach and sat by the zoo entrance trying to remove all the sand that I'd accumulated.  Then I went back into town, had lunch, and headed off to the game.

The weather did start to clear, although the sun never fully came out until I was on my way back into town for some lunch mid-afternoon time.