Mile Rock can be seen at right--there's the remainder of a lighthouse on top of it. - Jim Collier Photography

Lots of people, helicopters, boats--and also another, bigger boat.

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Jim Collier > Throngs of people came out to see the QM2 arrive, and positioned themselves wherever parking wouldn't allow, all over the opening to the bay. We even parked in a ditch (after asking a traffic cop if it was legal--he basically said it kind of was depending on how you looked at it). The traffic after it was more fascinating than the boat!

Jim Collier > Mile Rock can be seen at right--there's the remainder of a lighthouse on top of it.

Jim Collier > QM2 and Coast Guard Helicopter. (High-speed infrared.)

Jim Collier > More of the Coast Guard helicopter in infrared.

Jim Collier > The Queen Mary 2: Not the largest boat, but as of that date the largest ocean liner, and the largest boat to enter SF bay. They had to time it to the highest tide, and had 30 ft. clearance under the bridge.Though I love boats and water, I knew nothing about ocean liners and cruise ships, or that there was even a difference. (Mainly because I have no desire to be trapped for days on a floating hotel that wastes a gallon of fuel for every 29 feet traveled, packed to the gills with a bunch of drunken sunburned tourists. Sounds like a horror movie, not a vacation!)So after becoming an expert after three minutes of skimming the subject on Wikipedia, I have found what the differences are:Ocean liners are transportation, cruise ships are party boats.Ocean liners are designed to cross open ocean such as the North Atlantic. Cruise ships don't stray too far into rough open waters.Ocean liners attract a comparatively decadent clientele (you know—the old money that dines with the captain and if the ship starts sinking they all run around shooting riff-raff like Leonardo DiCaprio). Cruise ships are packed with the people that would normally be confined to the steerage deck on an ocean liner. (Just so you don't think I'm being elitist: I'd be fine on the Fiesta Deck—you know, the one below Steerage.)

Jim Collier > I realized too late that I ripped off the Schindler's List color/monochrome cliche, which seems to be getting pretty treadworn. Forgive me. But at least I did invent a new adjective: treadworn. Right?

Jim Collier > At one point I counted something like 8 helicopters and 14 planes visible in the sky at one time. On a very hazy day.

Jim Collier > This is what Home is.

Mile Rock can be seen at right--there's the remainder of a lighthouse on top of it.

Jim Collier > Mile Rock can be seen at right--there's the remainder of a lighthouse on top of it.

Mile Rock can be seen at right--there's the remainder of a lighthouse on top of it.

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