A few weeks back I was introduced by a friend of mine (
Genevieve Brennan) to a gorgeous camping spot in the Marin Headlands right across (
right across) the Golden Gate Bridge:
Kirby Cove.
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| En route to Kirby Cove |
She organized and cooked up a outdoors dinner, on the beach, under redwoods and cypress trees, with raccoons. She served vegetable tarts, lentils, fresh grilled asparagus, some kind of quinoa deal. It was delicious and magical. Take a look at the spread:
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| Like out of a magazine, right? |
You can read more about it from her post
here.
Anyhow, on the way to the cove I came across an old abandoned
battery, them forts they built to take pot shots at ships coming into the San Francisco bay. It's between Battery Spencer and
Battery Kirby (nee Gravelly Beach Battery). Various links online say this was Battery Wagner, but I couldn't confirm that with the GGNRA/Marin Headlands maps, and it appears from one source that Battery Wagner is closer to Battery Wagner road deep in the Headlands (whoduh thunk?). At any rate, this cool old battery has been repurposed as an outdoor mural space by a bunch of graffiti artists.
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| View of Battery Wagner (?) from above. |
