I'm from Florida, but I was there with a rental car and I was on reconnaissance mission and was looking to cross the Golden Gate Bridge when I came across a turn that would take me down, below the bridge and where this Fort' is. 😮 The parking lot for the Fort' is directly on the water where the 'Bridge crosses over the 'Bay. 🤔 No one was in the 'lot, so I parked right in front of the Fort' and in a spot against the low sea wall. 🙂 About 40 yds. out was the massive bridge support, anchored in a solid, cement island, which I could see over and across the channel and to the Marin side of the 'bridge. 😮 The next thing I saw really surprised me because I'm surfer, and because at this point and because this is all well inside the 'Inlet and entering San Francisco bay, is that a head-high set rolled in, wrapped around the cement 'bridge support, came straight at me and the sea wall, and broke! 🤫 A beautiful, glassy, overhead, wall; it was low tide, and had I a 'board I could have paddled out a caught 2 hours of delicious peak, all by myself!☆¡ 😅 Of course, I wasn't prepared for a surf, but that accidental discovery made my whole trip; I'll never forget it. Just me, an empty parking lot, the Fort' behind me, and solid, overhead lefts peeling across and under the bridge in front of me!☆¡ 😉
Thanks for this video, very informative. I saw this fort in an old episode of Mission Impossible, figured out what it was, and found this video.
I'm from Florida, but I was there with a rental car and I was on reconnaissance mission and was looking to cross the Golden Gate Bridge when I came across a turn that would take me down, below the bridge and where this Fort' is. 😮
The parking lot for the Fort' is directly on the water where the 'Bridge crosses over the 'Bay. 🤔
No one was in the 'lot, so I parked right in front of the Fort' and in a spot against the low sea wall. 🙂
About 40 yds. out was the massive bridge support, anchored in a solid, cement island, which I could see over and across the channel and to the Marin side of the 'bridge. 😮
The next thing I saw really surprised me because I'm surfer, and because at this point and because this is all well inside the 'Inlet and entering San Francisco bay, is that a head-high set rolled in, wrapped around the cement 'bridge support, came straight at me and the sea wall, and broke! 🤫
A beautiful, glassy, overhead, wall; it was low tide, and had I a 'board I could have paddled out a caught 2 hours of delicious peak, all by myself!☆¡ 😅
Of course, I wasn't prepared for a surf, but that accidental discovery made my whole trip; I'll never forget it.
Just me, an empty parking lot, the Fort' behind me, and solid, overhead lefts peeling across and under the bridge in front of me!☆¡ 😉
900 ft of big granite wall, many layers deep... easy
Some miners did this with some engineers, sure.
Nobody believes this.