San Francisco Bay
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For Rob's birthday, a group of us went to Encuentro, a...
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This also meant that we got to see the Bay Bridge up...
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Old Bay Bridge with Yerba Buena Island in the background.
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John squinting into the sunshine as usual.
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Rob on the ferry.
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Rob and Monica talking on the ferry. Rob just bought a...
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Entering Oakland Harbor. The decommissioned Alameda...
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AT/AT crane from Empire Strikes Back. Apparently this is...
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Alameda Naval Air Station.
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Alameda Naval Air Station
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Port of Oakland!
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There are a few businesses on the old air station in...
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Cruising through Oakland Harbor.
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This dock looks like it is in need of some TLC.
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Sailing! It was a very windy day, must have been fun to...
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Cool looking crane in Oakland Harbor.
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Old Navy crane that definitely doesn't work anymore.
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A dry dock! Pretty sweet.
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This is the best logo I have seen in a long while. I...
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This ship is named Lurline. Like Lurline Lumpkin from...
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That's a kind of clever logo. The T looks like a Ship...
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The title of coolest ship name lasted only briefly to...
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Looking at the Bay Bridge from Embarcadero near the...
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Yerba Buena Island and one tower of the west span of the...
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The Bay Bridge from the southeast, taken from the...
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Option B.
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Bridge-en glow!
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At this point, the new bridge began to peek into view.
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Unfortunately, the old span of the east bridge kind of...
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Western span.
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While this half is less pretty (I think, especially in...
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Another sunseted cityscape.
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The giant 1700T (on water, not land) crane built in...
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The crane from further away. We joked that this was the...
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The Oakland end of the Self Anchored Suspension span (SAS).
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Catherine and Tour Guide Carol inspect the SAS of the...
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Looking at the main tower from water level. Sort of...
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The silver spools on the barge are single bundles of...
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Looking up at the Bay Bridge tower and crane.
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Looking up at the bottom of the SAS, with bikeway to the left.
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Looking up through the space between the two bridge...
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Catherine and John on the boat.
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Looking up at the SAS. Note that this side of the...
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Looking up at the SAS tower. Eventually, when the big...
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The old, the new, and the construction.
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We watched the tower crane (the base of which is visible...
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Looking up at the bent cap at the start of the SAS.
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New skyway and old Bay Bridge.
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Maintenance access to the skyway and in the distance...
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Piers for the Skyway (the part from the SAS to Oakland).
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That is one large expansion joint. Visible within are...
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Another view at the joint. Also, you can see the...
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Looking down the skyway towards Oakland. The horizontal...
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Access holes under the skyway.
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Looking back towards YBI and the SAS.
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50 mph speed limit.
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Repaired span of the SF Bay Bridge. If you zoom in and...
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I thought this view fit in with my "Pathways" series of...
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The off-angle of the hydraulic piston makes this...
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Turns out, the Oakland Bay Bridge has a troll! For a...
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Another shot of the hydraulic piston on the south side...
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The segment that fell from further away.
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And now, from the other side.
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Glancing back at the city from the boat. We were quite...
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Catherine talking with Tour Guide Carol.
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Headed back to the Oakland Touchdown (nothing to do with...
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Remember the spool of wire we saw being lifted to the...
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1700 ton crane custom built for lifting the Chinese...
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Seeing a mirage on the nearly complete skyway, headed...
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After the boat tour came a drive on the skyway to the...
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Catherine walking up to the SAS.
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Bundles of steel cable waiting in line to get strung.
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Closer shot of the steel cable spools.
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Spools of wire wait their turn. On the right, the blue...
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On the steel deck of the SAS.
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Ski-lift type mechanism for stringing steel cables. The...
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Out on the deck of the SAS, looking at the tower.
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A bundle of wires (127 per bundle) gets pulled up to the...
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Each of the cable bundles that are already strung are...
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The cable bundles are taped together to mark and...
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Looking out towards the Golden Gate Bridge from the new...
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John and Catherine are all smiles on the bridge!
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Giving the wire bundles a sense of scale.
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Catherine on the SAS.
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Catherine and Carol on the SAS.
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Approximately 78 bundles of 127 wires that will become...
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John and Catherine.
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That walkway looks more than a little teeter-tottery for...
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John and tour-guide Carol walk towards the main tower.
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View of a maintenance staircase between the eastbound...
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One of the cross-beams between the two spans. We had...
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Bundle of cable waiting to be installed. Each bundle is...
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Again, reminds me of a space shuttle launch pad.
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Catherine is all smiles in front of the new Bay Bridge tower.
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All the necessary details. Each wire was tagged with...
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The orange traveler is I believe what attaches the steel...
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I feel like the tower might actually be a rocket ship...
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Looking down 200+ feet to Yerba Buena Island. Don't drop...
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We are now near Yerba Buena Island, where the SAS main...
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For more info on all this, check out this site:...
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New Bay Bridge tower from the other side.
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Where the cables turn around. The massive steel U-shaped...
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The channels actually force the cable bundles from their...
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This is were the construction of this bridge gets even...
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Remember: the SAS is a Self-Anchored Suspension bridge,...
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Note that each cable bundle has a blue wire and a red...
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The tower shadow on the water so very far below.
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The intermittent white pieces sticking out are the...
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CalTrans Catherine, at the cable turnaround. We're now a...
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Looking towards the Golden Gate. Good thing our tour...
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Steel tension rods 200+ feet long actively pulling the...
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The deck in the SAS is steel, but the Skyway from...
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Looking at the SAS wire bundles, towards YBI.
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Here you have a better view of the rectilinear channels...
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Unlike the Skyway, the approach from YBI appears to have...
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The approach from YBI (actually, this is the westbound...
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Back to the wire bundles. The bundles naturally want to...
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We're still under the deck at the YBI end. This giant...
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The YBI descent again. This is the same structure we...
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Looking back at the old structure.
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And up at it. Sure has a lot of rivets.
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Another look at the old span and its eyebolts.
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Unfortunately for us, right about this time was lunch...
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Happy square bundles of wires. Not that you can see the...
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We are now on the south side, looking back at the tower....
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In the top right, the cable that was just placed can be...
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Better view of the jacking equipment, and workers...
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Then, the hydraulics are released. The CalTrans...
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Looking at the bike path on the east-bound span.
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And back at the deviator saddle. Before lunch, the guys...
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View of the pedestrian-bike path on the south side of...
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78 out of 137 cable bundles in place, headed up the...
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Now this catwalk looked nice and sturdy. I challenged...
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Eventually the main cables get attached to a number of...
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The angled white structures off the side of the deck are...
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Looking down on the top of the hanger anchor assembly. ...
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Another look at the anchor. I wish I had something in...
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The nearly straight cables at the center left run all...
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Closer up.
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Another picture of John and Catherine, with the light in...
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The spare parts yard.
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I hope not.
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Supply yard. It's amazing how much more open this...
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Scaffolding and elevator "shaft" on the south side of the tower.
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The old bridge. Some base paint seems to be showing...
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John's helmet casting a shadow.
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Looking up the tower. Now I need to figure out how to...
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Steel cable bundles waiting for installation.
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Most of these buckets were marked with notes like "do not use".
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Note the conical cable receptacles on top.
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John glances back one more time. Probably the next time...
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A lot of civil piping runs through the bridge. It seems...
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I was amazed by how over-the-road the cables were...
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A second cable-moving trolley.
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Apparently bridge workers like trolls and Angry Birds.
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Steel tie rods where the tensioned cables are anchored...
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I love that even this "small" task has necessitated a...
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One of the coolest parts. This is the anchor for the...
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Each cable bundle has a giant end cast on to it - the...
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The other end of the casing has a threaded hole in it,...
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The hardest part with applying load to anything is how...
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Tour-Guide Carol liked that the workers used the...
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Some unfinished expansion joints.
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Another deviator saddle, where the big cable comes down...
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Looking at the expansion joint between the SAS and the...
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Close-up of one tube (without its mate).
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Looking down to the supports below.
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Driving back in the Mini Cooper.