After the bike ride, we cooled down, had showers and then went down to dinner in Berkeley via Grizzly Peak.
We drove through this tunnel under the ridge, past these lovely houses that were rebuilt after the recent fires and then around Fish Ranch road up to the ridge.
We stopped briefly at this lookout and I took the following photos.
Looking across Berkeley to the Golden Gate Bridge. The long pier that you can just see through the mist is the old Berkeley fishing pier which was 2 miles long at one stage and it was where the fishing boats unloaded their catch. The spit of land jutting out the left is Shorebird park, then Berkeley Yacht Harbour and the start of Cesar Chavez State Park on the far right. the grassy area behind the harbour is Eastshore State Park.
This is looking down Strawberry Canyon over Memorial Stadium at Berkeley Uni, Berkeley Uni itself towards San Francisco. The office buildings on the shore are in Emeryville with it's marina just beyond. The bridge just past it is the Bay Bridge going over Yerba Buena and Treasure Island and into San Francisco.
The tower behind is the Sutro Tower on Twin Peaks near Mt Sutro. It's in the middle of suburbia
A closer shot of Berkeley campus. with Strawberry Canyon and Memorial Stadium in the foreground.
This is the house that Jim and his now wife stayed in when they were at uni. Jim went to Sacremento to work for a couple of months and Dot had a visit from a friendly policeman to warn her that the house had been the scene of a double murder and that the killer had just been released from jail. The story was that the son had killed his parents and then fled, been caught and put in jail. They had wondered abou the stange stain on the floorboards near the bathroom door and the policeman had great delight in recreating the murders. They said to each other that they weren't scared but ended up all sleeping in the same room that night ! The policeman also mentioned that they might want to get the locks changed ....
This is the house in front, which was a nursing home when they were there and there was also rumours of strange goings on.
Wacky street sign # 57.
Jim on his bike in the background.
These are the American "Frat Houses" that you see in the movies as wild party places.
Chi Omega
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Phi Gamma Delta
Kappa Delta Rho
And finally, Kappa Gamma
All of these were photographed from one corner uphill from the main university buildings.
More tomorrow.
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