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China camp state park, San Rafael: quiet and warm Immigrants from the Canton district of China built a shrimping village on San Francisco Bay here in the 19th century, exporting the haul back home and ......(Continue Reading) San Francisco Bay's undiscovered islands San Francisco Bay is dotted by numerous islands aside from the famous Alcatraz. Such privately-owned islets have been opened to the public and made accessible ......(Continue Reading)San Francisco's once and future waterfront After 32 years behind a concrete fogbank known as the Embarcadero Freeway, San Francisco's downtown shoreline is becoming visible again. In the 1950s, ......(Continue Reading)Almost a ghost, China Camp on San Pablo Bay Almost a ghost, China Camp on San Pablo Bay Named for the longest-running shrimping camp in northern California, 1,512-acre China Camp State Park, 16 ......(Continue Reading)Endless summer: it's the best beach month of the year. Kick off your shoes and head to one of our favorite close-to-home beaches Summer is the shortest season. At least, it feels that way. Astronomically speaking, summer ends September 22 at 9:30 a.m. PDT, but the season's symbolic ......(Continue Reading)
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