Fisherman's Wharf
Waterfront district of seafood stalls, sea lion-packed docks, and bay views toward Alcatraz.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco traces how a colony of California sea lions took over a marina dock one September morning in 1989 and refused to leave, even after marine biologists were consulted. You'll hear how the animals kept multiplying through that winter, and how the humans who actually paid rent ended up relocating their boats instead. It also reaches back to the wharf's older story, the Genoese fishermen who first worked these waters in green lateen-sailed boats.
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