If you're like me, you've driven or BARTed past the cranes that stand proud overlooking Oakland's side of the Bay countless times and have wondered when you're going to go pay them a visit countless times.
They stand guard, usually at full attention, noting us as we enter their city.
I can't look at them without being reminded of the herds of giraffes that I saw flocking around the watering holes in Namibia.
They don't just stand there. They're working to unload countless (well, someone is counting, I guess) wildly colorful containers of stuff into the Port. Seeing these containers up close and stacked on top each other is something else.
The scale of these sentries and the loot they seem to be guarding is so massive, I hardly expected to find this other kind of sentry when I started exploring. But then I ran across a pair of Canadians. This handsome couple were on full alert as they guarded over their treasures. In this case, the treasure came in fuzzy little packages of down feathers.
Despite their differences, the sentries are keeping watch over the same waters.
And they're not even the smallest creatures that call Oakland home alongside its other more noticeable occupants.
It's just another reason to love Oakland's diversity. And even though our giraffes don't flock to the Bay, you can always visit them at the Oakland Zoo. That might be my next "explore Oakland with a camera" adventure.
I can't look at them without being reminded of the herds of giraffes that I saw flocking around the watering holes in Namibia.
They don't just stand there. They're working to unload countless (well, someone is counting, I guess) wildly colorful containers of stuff into the Port. Seeing these containers up close and stacked on top each other is something else.
The scale of these sentries and the loot they seem to be guarding is so massive, I hardly expected to find this other kind of sentry when I started exploring. But then I ran across a pair of Canadians. This handsome couple were on full alert as they guarded over their treasures. In this case, the treasure came in fuzzy little packages of down feathers.
And they're not even the smallest creatures that call Oakland home alongside its other more noticeable occupants.
It's just another reason to love Oakland's diversity. And even though our giraffes don't flock to the Bay, you can always visit them at the Oakland Zoo. That might be my next "explore Oakland with a camera" adventure.
