The Golden Gate is the strait connecting the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Since the 1930s it has been spanned by the Golden Gate Bridge.

Great tidal flows added with the combined flows of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River have scoured a channel several hundred feet deep through the strait.

Before the arrival of Europeans in the 18th century, the area around the strait and the bay was inhabited by the Ohlone people. The strait was surprisingly elusive for early European explorers, presumably due to its persistent summer fog. The strait is not recorded in the voyages of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo nor Francis Drake, both of whom may have explored the nearby coast in the 16th century in search of the Northwest Passage. The strait is also unrecorded in observation by several Spanish galleons returning from the Philippines that laid up in nearby Drakes Bay. These galleons often passed west of the Farallon Islands (27 miles west of the Golden Gate), fearing the possibility of rocks between the Islands and the mainland.

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blogodemocrate (Blogo Démocrate) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:51:07 -0000
Golden Gate Quartet , groupe Negro Spiritual. http://bit.ly/8RyHe3 #politique
+ Perkins’ Yacht Maltese Falcon Sailing Under Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco: http://bit.ly/6yZrXf
kittyroar (kittyroar) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:33:37 -0000
+ Perkins’ Yacht Maltese Falcon Sailing Under Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco: http://bit.ly/6yZrXf
Golden Gate Bridge with old sepia effect applied. http://bit.ly/70xLAF
dtaylorcreative (D. Taylor Creative) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:12:15 -0000
Golden Gate Bridge with old sepia effect applied. http://bit.ly/70xLAF
New post: SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE! ~SAN FRANCISCO~ Whatcha Say Jason DeRulo (http://cli.gs/J8MS2)
engineeringanon (Engineer Anon) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:02:06 -0000
New post: SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE! ~SAN FRANCISCO~ Whatcha Say Jason DeRulo (http://cli.gs/J8MS2)
Perkins’ Yacht Maltese Falcon Sailing Under Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco: http://bit.ly/6yZrXf
johnnysmith7 (Johnny Smith) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:37:33 -0000
Perkins’ Yacht Maltese Falcon Sailing Under Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco: http://bit.ly/6yZrXf
Golden Gate in Arbutus is a definite possibilty. Yo Yo Cafe in Briggs Chaney is, of course, the old standby. They make the best Kung Pao.
TheEvander (Evan M. Rosenberg) Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:37:23 -0000
Golden Gate in Arbutus is a definite possibilty. Yo Yo Cafe in Briggs Chaney is, of course, the old standby. They make the best Kung Pao.

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