Bay Area Fly Over

Dave and I got the coolest gift from his daughter and her husband…a plane flight over the Bay Area through SF Air Tours.  We scheduled our flight for sunset and I’m so glad we did.  The light was absolutely incredible and shockingly no fog!  Well there was a bit of haze and light fog on the coast outside the Golden Gate but it only added to the beauty.

Let me say that these pictures are not that great.  Unfortunately the windows were not the type where you can take crisp pictures through them plus I discovered how mistakenly easy it is to change the ISO on my camera!  It’s so pathetically easy that I have to assign that button somewhere else.  Evidently this is a common thing that happens with this camera and I got to experience it first-hand.   Anyway, without going into all the drama that ensued with me trying to adjust settings on my new camera in a plane that’s moving….lol….here they are for your viewing pleasure.  I’ve tried captioning most all of them so you know what you’re looking at.

Just fyi, I’ll be off my blog starting Saturday for about 10 days on a break.  I’ll be back at the end of July!

Golden Gate Bridge

Sign

Executive Terminal at Oakland Airport

From inside the terminal

Our little plane waiting!

Military Helicopter spotted on takeoff

SF side of Bay Bridge (Treasure island in foreground)

Berkeley Hills with Mt. Diablo in Background

Golden Gate & Presidio

Oakland & Mt. Diablo in Background

Berkeley & Albany near Bay

Oakland-Alameda Estuary toward Bay

Oakland-Alameda Estuary

Oakland-Alameda Estuary

Looking out from SF Presidio over SF to Oakland and Mt. Diablo in the background

Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge

SF Side of Bay Bridge (SF to the right)

Out toward Tiburon and Sausalito

Alameda

Oakland-SF Bay Bridge

Lake Merritt in Oakland

SF out by the Ocean (Golden Gate Park is the strip of green)

Touch down!

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Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge

The same evening I shot the moon rising beneath the Bay Bridge from Treasure Island, earlier we went atop Yerba Buena Island to take this shot of the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge.  Treasure and Yerba Buena Islands are often referred to collectively as “former Naval Station Treasure Island” or “Treasure Island”.  Yerba Buena is connected to Treasure Island and is not very big.  It’s the hilly island whereas Treasure Island is flat.  The Yerba Buena Tunnel runs through its center and connects the western and eastern spans of the Bay Bridge.

You can drive up to the very top for now….that is until they start changing everything there.  Rumor has it there will be a hotel and condos built.  I’m not really looking forward to that.  Seems everywhere there is land around the bay, it’s being developed.  But for now, I really love going to the top and taking in the stunning views.

Bay Bridge from Yerba Buena Island