Time Travel on the San Francisco Bay

Few boats on the San Francisco Bay can claim to be time machines, but that’s just how East Bay Yesterday podcaster Liam O’Donoghue, tour guide of the Oakland and Richmond historical waterfronts, views the Pacific Pearl.

Dave and Aleta George on Fish Emeryville's Pacific Pearl in the
Oakland Estuary.

“In day-to-day life we look at the world in a three-dimensional view,” he says, “but when you know history, you can look at it through four dimensions because you can see into the past using your imagination.”

O'Donoghue has been leading historical tours of the East Bay waterfronts with Fish Emeryville. Although the tours have been cancelled for now due to the coronavirus, you can engage in some arm-chair travel on the bay by reading my article in Estuary News--and stick a pin in it for when the tours start up again!