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San Francisco Fleet Week 2009
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Ben Vincent
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Fleet Week comes to San Francisco once a year and this was my third chance to check it out. In fact, I’d been looking forward to it for quite some time because it’s a great chance to take some really cool photos. On Saturday we found a prime location at Aquatic Park with Kevin & Vivien from work. The weather was a little weird -- typical SF! The view over Alcatraz was beautiful but the Golden Gate was hidden in fog. The Patriot Jets weren’t put off and did there full display. However, the Blue Angels had other ideas; after 5 minutes they gave up and headed back to base! 
On Sunday the weather was even worse so I was a little hesitant to head over to Aquatic Park again. Fortunately, I found a note online saying they’d changed their routine and would definitely perform. So I biked down to Fisherman’s Wharf and found a great spot at the Hyde Street Pier on the steam boat Eureka. I wasn’t disappointed; despite a very white sky, I got some awesome photos: 
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San Francisco’s Nuclear Missile Battery
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Ben Vincent
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| On Saturday, after months of trying, we finally visited the SF-88L which is one of the only remaining Nike Missile Batteries in the United States. I say finally because it’s only open the first Saturday of each month and we’d kept finding ourselves double booked for almost a year! SF-88L is one of 280 such sites around the country that housed missiles designed to protect the US from airborne attacks during the cold war. What I didn’t realise was that these are nuclear missiles, five times more powerful than the bomb used at Hiroshima! [Read More] |
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