Memorial Day Weekend Part 4

You may wish to read Part One, Part Two and Part Three first and come back to this.

After the Frat Houses, we rode to the gates that are in the middle of the university, not at the side as one would expect. They are called the Sather Gates and straddle Sater Road at the intersection of Eshieman Road.



Squirrel !!


This is the Hearst Memorial Mining Building. It was originally built in 1903 and had a seismic retrofit several years ago where they incorporated one metre of cushioned lateral travel !


We then rode up the hill a little way, climb some steps and I jumped the fence into the Hearst Greek Theatre, and got a cut and bruise on my leg for my troubles, but it was worth it.


The chairs for the VIP guests look very uncomfortable and hard to move if you needed more leg room. I guess they would have cushions on them.


Quite a view from the top of the stone steps, there is a sloped grass apron behind me too, for extra seating.


Had to photograph this one, McLauglin hall with the engineering dept inside !


The Doe Memorial Library with Sather Tower behind to the left and California Hall on the right.


The huge Life Sciences building, which was too big for my lens to fit it all in. It has a tower at each corner and they have the names of the life sciences on them. This side has Physiology on the left and Bacteriology on the right.


We then rolled down the hill to the water. We used this bridge to cross the freeway and it had two amazing sculpture on each end.


Looking back towards Berkeley, it's in the valley in the middle, to the right of the golden patch on the hill.


This is the fishing pier near Shorebird park from Part 3.


We then rode back to the truck, stopping for some lunch on the way. Jim then took me back to Roberts place and stopped at the local Moron temple, sorry The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Oakland Temple.
The view was fantastic from the carpark, looking back to San Francisco over Yerba Buena Island, with the Bay Bridge on the right and the Golden Gate Bridge behind it.


The Temple was awe inspiring.


The fountain creek feature in front of it had big chunks of marble in it that looked like chunks of ice.




And that is the end of my Memorial Day weekend. This weekend I'm planning to take the Caltrain into San Francisco and have a wander around. Ciao !