Saturday, 23 November 2013

Nov 14 Escape to Alcatraz, San Francisco, CA

Then we continued toward San Francisco.  We stayed on the outskirts of the city in Pleasanton at Exhibition grounds, and drove into San Francisco with the car to do a tour of Alcatraz.  This is a fantastic tour, the audio tour is so very well done and Peter and I have been before, but this was a first for our kids. 

Criminals used to say "if you break the rules, you go to jail. If you break the rules in jail, you go to Alcatraz"

Alcatraz was originally used by the military to guard SF harbour. It didn't become a jail until much later.

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View from the boat on the way

Truly old 


Inside the cell
 
Over the wall -Failed

1 comment:

  1. The place gives me the creeps! You all look happy though!!!

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