Alcatraz

We just returned from a weekend in San Francisco and one thing we did was to take a night tour of Alcatraz. It has a famous and eerie reputation.
There are some fascinating facts about the island - like the 2,000 gulls that live and nest there. Apparently the male and females come back to the same exact spot to mate with each other, build a nest and lay three eggs year after year. You can see the birds in the air and all the white spots on the land are birds. San Francisco is across the water.

Clyde shows us how miserable the cells were. Every Friday night was 'music' night for 1 hour and one person may have played a harmonica and another played the trombone - only three notes!

There were some attempted escapes here and we even saw the two cells where the inmates enlarged their vent opening with spoons. Those two may have left Alcatraz the prison, but everyone thinks they drowned in the frigid waters because they were never heard from again!
We were glad to leave when the ferry left!