Hiking and Biking all day!

I went hiking again today, this time with a friend from the dorm called Daniel. The two of us left the dorm at 8:20am, brought our bikes on the Caltrain and biked along Embarcadero (a really scenic road along the SF coast) to Pier 41 where we took a ferry to Angel Island (off the San Fran coast). We reached the island at about 10:20am, hiked on a hiking trail, went all the way to the top of the island and enjoyed the spectacular view while having a very simple lunch (2 slices of bread, 3 eggs and a banana for me; Daniel had a banana, a cup of granola, an orange and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich). After that we hiked back, went down another trail (which was really steep) to try to see this old missile silo, realized we couldn't see it and climbed all the way back up (*pengz*). Then we took our time to hike back through the undergrowth and got back to the ferry with a comfortable 15 mins to spare.

When we got back to SF we decided to bike further along Embarcadero, then spontaneously decided to try to bike across the Golden Gate Bridge. It was a REALLY HARD bike ride to get to the bridge, a LOT of steep uphill slopes. But when we got to the Golden Gate it was so worth it, the view was simply spectacular. :) We biked across the entire bridge, took some photos and biked back, met some other Stanford dorm friends for dinner near Union Square then took the Caltrain back. I just got back at about 10:15pm... I've been out for 14 hours!! Dead tired. XP

If you'd like to see the full range of photos I took, check out the album below:

San Francisco: Angel Island and Golden Gate Bridge

Otherwise, here's some of the highlights (although there are really too many beautiful shots to put here):


Biking along Embarcadero, we passed under the Bay Bridge (not to be confused with the Golden Gate Bridge):

Taken from a path parallel to Embarcadero (the road's to the left but kinda blocked by the grass, the coast is to the right)

We got a spectacular view of San Fran from the ferry (that's Daniel in the picture):

Our view of San Fran from the top of Angel Island (it was kinda foggy but it's still a really cool picture. You can even see some of the main roads as vertical lines across the city, especially on the right of the city):

Our view of Tiburon, just north of San Francisco (a small and very pretty city with what looks like a lot of nice houses and a LOT of private boats moored):

Our view of the Golden Gate, with a bit of fog just creeping in from the right:

Daniel and I at the Golden Gate after we'd biked across it (whoo hoo! Talk about feeling triumphant man...) :

And finally, one of the spectacular views taken from the Golden Gate Bridge itself near the opposite end of the bridge from San Francisco:


Even looking at the photos now I'm quite in awe of the beauty God's put into this world. And I'm pretty sure I don't know the half of it.

Hope you enjoyed the photos! Do try and look at the album if you have the time. I'm gonna try to upload Daniel's photos too when I get them from him.