January 13, 2018 / 14:30 / 37°48'38.4"N 122°24'40.4"W / Pier 39 / Pier 39, near Fisherman’s Wharf, is a popular tourist destination / There are shops and buskers and ferry trips… and there are the sea lions / A very potent symbol of what San Francisco tries to achieve, these enormous animals have found a way to co-exist with a city of 870,000 people; the water is kept clean and in return wildlife thrives / As many as 1,700 sea lions can be seen at one time, lounging on the docks / Tourists come from all around to watch the animals swim and call to each other; and as this is still a working pier, to watch the boats gently navigate around them / A seaplane flies overhead and seabirds call, it’s January in San Francisco and the sun is shining //

All recordings and Photos by Randy Johnson See the PDF: https://issuu.com/bivouacrecording/docs/60_minute_cities-_san_francisco