Fisherman's Wharf

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.