This is tomorrow s blip! And vice-versa!

It seems that yesterday I was a day out! And posted on the first instead of the 30 June, so today I’m posting on the 1 July in the space of the 30june! 

So today, Tuesday our daughter took us to the two islands in the middle of the Bay Bridge.  The Bay bridge links Oakland to San Francisco.  The islands are Yerba Buena and Treasure Island.  

Yerba buena is a rocky outcrop with the “Point of infinity “ sculpture!  It is 69 ft.  Artist is Hiroshima Sugimoto.  There are great views in both directions towards SF and back from where we came.  

There are also metal boards with what happened in 1944.
“Had you been standing here at 10:18 pm on the night of 17 July, 1944, you would have seen the sky light up and heard the reverberations of two colossal explosions at PortChicago Naval Magazine on Suisun Bay, 25 miles to the northeast.  The second, larger blast registered 3.4 on the Richter scale.

In an instant 320 men were killed, 202 of them were black sailors.”  

They had been loading ammunition’s onto boats.  A similar number of men were injured.  The mutiny of 50 men who deemed the job too dangerous and refused to do it, was the turning point against segregation and racism in the armed forces of the US.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster

The second island is very flat and used to be a Navel Military base. We visited a fabulous building, u shaped with a very small but interesting museum.  So much to read! https://www.treasureislandmuseum.org/. 
An old building with beautiful bar, a couple of whiskey stills and old world toilets! You could just imagine the place hosting balls  with beautiful ladies and equally smart men! The telephone was taken there, old fashioned and when you closed the door, bright coloured lights danced around! I have marked the building with a star.

Then we went to a restaurant on the island and had an excellent lunch!  Near there we saw the huge butterfly!  Then it was home! As we neared  home, opposite Nob hill there is a huge mural which we partly watched being painted in 2014.  I took a panorama of it!