Sausalito’s Call of the Sea is offering a 3-week, Monday through Friday, day-only youth summer camp. The program is aimed at students aged 8 – 14 and includes a range of seafaring activities to engage young hands and minds. All activities will be conducted in compliance with Marin county public health orders. Campers will build their […]
The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) announced today that it will resume San Francisco Bay Ferry service on the Richmond route and double service on the Vallejo route beginning on Monday, June 15. WETA has also adopted a six-point Passenger and Crew Safety Plan, formalizing safety measures put into effect to […]
The Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) recently acknowledged that some essential workers continue to ride San Francisco Bay Ferry regularly and would like to purchase a June monthly pass for the Vallejo route. To accommodate these needs, WETA announced that they will be issuing June monthly passes for the Vallejo route and they can be […]
Effective immediately, Golden Gate Ferry has made additional Larkspur weekday schedule changes to better match service to current ridership levels, save fuel costs and reduce emissions, and help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. See complete Golden Gate Ferry timetables below, in effect until further notice: LARKSPUR – SAN FRANCISCO (effective May 12, 2020) Weekday […]
The San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) recently announced that it has been awarded a $9 million grant from the California State Transportation Agency (CalSTA) to build an all-electric passenger ferry to serve the Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco. The grant, awarded through CalSTA’s Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program, will […]
New public health department orders in local counties require masks or face coverings to be worn in public spaces beginning Wednesday, April 22. Public transit is included in these orders and all passengers will be required to wear masks or face coverings while boarding and on board the ferry vessels until further notice. Passengers […]
On March 16, the City of San Francisco and five other Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place order for non-essential activities. This was the most severe measure of its kind in the country at the time, with an initial three-week order that ran through April 7. I am proud to live in a state and […]
Unlike many major U.S. ocean cargo gateways, the Port of Oakland has not succumbed to the temptation of diversifying its operations to accommodate the global cruise industry. This has always been a working port; up until recently, it had never even hosted a guest mega-cruise ship into its harbor. All that changed rather dramatically […]
Did you know this year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day? My staff would normally be tabling at festivals around the Bay Area, organizing volunteers at shoreline trash cleanups and hosting happy hours at local restaurants to toast the Bay we love. Yet here we are instead, celebrating the Earth inside […]
Journey Round My Room, published by San Francisco’s Arion Press, is a travelogue by Xavier de Maistre. The story in a nutshell: In 1790, as a young officer in the Piedmontese army, Xavier de Maistre participated in a duel. It is not known whether his opponent perished or was wounded; de Maistre records no injury […]