San Francisco Bay panorama

Water-level panorama from Sausalito

Sausalito offers a superb water-level view of San Francisco Bay, which is displayed below with a powerful zoom. (Caution: loading this large file needs extra time. It is best viewed in full-screen mode: press F11, press again for normal mode; close this window in the top margin to return to the last page.)

From the left, we see in this very detailed panorama (33 times wider than it is high, and composed of 55 individual pictures):

The southeast tip of Angel Island, called Point Blunt (map).
The Hiller Highlands residential community in the North Oakland Hills (map).
The Round Top in the Oakland Hills, an old volcano with transmitter towers.
The bayside towers of the town of Emeryville (map).
The spire of the Mormon Temple halfway up the Oakland Hills (map).
The office towers of downtown Oakland (map) beyond flat man-made Treasure Island (map).
The eastern half of the Bay Bridge, including the over 70-year old double-deck bridge and the left part of the new lower single-deck bridge, the rest of which is still missing in this view (map).
Yerba Buena Island, through which a double-deck tunnel connects the eastern and western halves of the Bay Bridge (map).
The western half of the Bay Bridge, composed of two separate suspension bridges (map), with Alcatraz and its famous old prison in front.
San Francisco's Financial District, to the right of Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill, topped by the Transamerica Pyramid and the former Bank of America Center.
Hills and neighborhoods of San Francisco, with their characteristic light paint colors.
The old military barracks and park of the Presidio.
To the left of the red-roofed St Francis Yacht Club is the Golden Gate Yacht Club (a smaller yellow two-storey building showing a single row of windows), which in 2010 became home of the America's Cup won by Oracle's USA-17 trimaran (map).
The domed Palace of Fine Arts (map).