Even the crowded, tourist filled streets of Sausalito have hidden wonders with no tourists in sight and I got a personal tour yesterday of the backroads of the little gem on the north shore of the golden gate. Bill Foote, husband to Crafty, grew up across an arm of the bay on Tiburon (he pointed out his house from this side yesterday) and knows the area as few do. We biked causally along hidden paths seldom far from the water, past marinas, dry docks, remnants of WWII liberty ship yards and lots and lots of boats, sailing and powered, big and small and in between, expensive and less so (boats are always costly in a variety of ways), stylish and funky. The northern end of the tour to the land of hundreds of houseboats and that's where the variety really goes wild. If it floats and you're willing to pay and live there almost anything seems to go. Mostly all are charming and would seem a delight way, and place, to live. Hmmmmmm…this trip is a retirement shakedown tour. A month or two a year on a boat in Sausalito, I can think of waaaaaaaaay worse lifestyles.
The tour did lead toward the south end of town and the upscale shops of the heart (or are the houseboats the heart, or the houses on the hills above downtown…) of Sausalito. Lots of action, locals on bike, tourists on foot, a ferry discharging it's human cargo, people pretty much everywhere. We finally darted home, again, not on the main drag of Bridgeway, but through the local's shop filled street just a block away.
And, then dinner: halibut cheek tacos. I had mentioned halibut cheeks in some recent discussion of seafood with Crafty and Bill and since Bill runs the seafood department at a local Whole Foods…being a guest of many wonderful friends continues to produce delight after delight. I'm feeling like a lucky guy!
For those unfamiliar with halibut cheeks, and not many make it out of the fishing enclaves of Alaska and other west coast ports; they are just too good, rather small and not shared with the rest of the country. But, all creatures with jaws have muscles in their face to operate those jaws, halibut included and if you look they can be removed (remember, humans once ate and/or used every bit of any creature killed for food - actually, we still do just not in a style seen by most). Imagine all the tastiness of lobster and crab combined; that's a halibut cheek. With all the accoutrements you can imagine to mix with tasty meat in a corn tortilla, halibut cheek tacos!! And, now leftovers for lunch.
In other off and on Earth news, heat is cooking the east coast - I'm sure with some storms thrown in, there are likely fracking caused quakes in Oklahoma - prove me wrong oil industry; stop the fracking and see if the quakes stop, volcanoes belch and rumble around the Pacific rim and Jupiter and Venus sidle closer and closer in the western sky of early evening. With the blue, haze free skies of California, I was able to spot Venus again yesterday with the sun still well up in the sky. Hide just barely in the shade, guesstimate the distance away from the sun (I did sneak a peak at my sky view app to get close), wear shades and look for the little white speck. Go for, a planet in the daytime sky, Today on Earth.
An interesting near quarter moon - crane - flag shot.
Ribs of the hull of the tall ship, the brigantine Matthew Turner.
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