“Journeys: A Day Trip to the Fascinating Hodgepodge That Is Mare Island”
The San Francisco Standard - Published November 15, 2022
A first-person overview by writer, Jeff Greenwald:
Cross a retired U.S. Navy shipyard with a bird sanctuary, add a dash of ghost town and throw in a jigger of whiskey. That’s an approximate recipe for Mare Island: a sparse, puzzling and often surreal landfall, just an hour by ferry from San Francisco.
Despite decades spent exploring the Bay Area, I’d never considered visiting. But here I was on a daylong adventure to the historic Naval base and present-day mystery spot, so near yet so far from Gate E of the Ferry Building (but actually very close to Vallejo). On approach under foggy skies, Mare looked somewhat bleak and industrial. But there were some surprises in store.
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