28/12/11- we took off from Melbourne, stop over in Aukland then got the huge airbus to San Francisco in California. We got to The Green Tortoise hostel late in the day so we just went for a walk around. We went to the wharf region which was pretty busy. From there you can see Alcatraz and the Golden gate bridge. Next day we did an Alcatraz tour, where we went and caught a ferry across which is only about 10 mins, easy swimmable! On the island it was eerie because of the fog we couldn't actually see it until we were there. It looked scary. We walked round in there and did a really good audio tour which told stories and the history. From that they showed u where the breakouts were and evenwhere grenades blasted
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