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We Take Boat Tours, Too

We know: Fort Point, underneath the Golden Gate Bridge in the Presidio, is a touristy thing to go see. But, like Top of the Rock, the Empire State Building, or even riding the Circle Line, they are things that must be done, even when your anti-fannypack sensibilities are mortally offended. Plus, we really enjoyed ourselves.

Fort Point was constructed at the mouth of the bay to protect San Francisco from attack and was originally completed in 1861. There were over 100 cannons positioned there, and any ships entering the bay would have been forced to run the gauntlet. Troops were withdrawn from the fort about twenty years afterwards, but it was still used as a storage depot, and was later the headquarters of operations during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Now it's a historical site--certainly the windiest historical site we've ever been to--and there's even an hourly reenactment of how the canons were operated, by a volunteer in a civil war uniform. We could have done without that part, but the views from right under the bridge are spectacular. C'mon, suck it up and go visit the next time you are in town. We won't tell anyone else.

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