Today, I walked about two miles along the busy Oakland Port to the Middle Harbor Shoreline Park on the coast of the San Francisco Bay. The park is a 38-acre waterfront park on the site of the former Oakland Naval Supply Depot, with panoramic views of San Francisco Bay, the Oakland Port, and the San Francisco skyline. It was an easy walk along 7th street which is the first cross street from the house. The walk is on sidewalks until you get into the heart of the port area and then it becomes part of the San Francisco Bay Trail. There is an observation tower at the far end of the park.
The park was quiet but not without visitors as a school class was having an outing there.
When the park was the Oakland Naval Supply Depot, it was a 541 acre facility that was equipped with dozens of warehouses with a combined floor area of over 7,000,000 square feet. The depot served as a supply center for the Navy’s Pacific Fleet from WWII until 1998.
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