When we first arrived to San Francisco, we were a little disappointed because it was drizzling and extremely foggy. You couldn’t even see the city or the Golden Gate Bridge from the Oakland Bridge (as seen in the photo).
Therefore, we just decided to do something that would not require us to see things from a distance: Alcatraz.
The experience at Alcatraz was truly interesting – we got to see all the decaying buildings, jail cells, and pretty vegetation that covered the grounds. Plus, we got to see how those three men from the Clint Eastwood movie escaped from their jail cells. They made these fake replicas of their heads out of soap, food, and anything else they found while at Alcatraz. Then they put the fake heads under their covers one night, fooling the guards and thus giving them the opportunity to make their escape.
Plus, all the rain/fog gave Alcatraz a dark, mysterious, eerie feeling that made it that much more exciting. And the way they did the tour was really cool too. We got headsets and listened to past prisoners & officers guide us through the prison.
My dad says it would have been impossible for those three men described earlier to escape from Alcatraz because the water would have been freezing, but as we saw later in San Fran, people swim in that water all the time. Therefore, I think it was possible for them to escape… again I said “possible,” not “likely” (haha).
Beautiful decaying buildings
Jail Cells
The three men who escaped Alcatraz and their replica heads made of soap
My mom and I
Alcatraz on a gloomy day
Beautiful decaying buildings
It was so foggy, you could not even see the city behind us!
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