SF News Federal Cuts End Year-Round Conservation on the Farallon Islands Budget constraints will reduce research on the Farallon Islands to a seasonal program. The loss of year-round monitoring puts seabirds, seals, and other wildlife at risk, with fewer resources to prevent human disturbances.
SF News Two Dozen Killer Whales Spotted Off Farallon Islands, Likely There To Chow On Seals And Baby Whales Whale watchers were thrilled to see a giant pack of 24 orca killer whales right off the coast of the Farallon Islands, but you might be less thrilled to learn that those orcas are probably there to feast on sea lions, elephant seals, and baby gray whales.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Never Forget The Farallon Egg War, A Gold Rush-Era Food Fight To Feed Miners During a gold rush, as the saying goes, best to sell pickaxes. But in the case of the San Francisco Gold Rush, pickaxes were in relatively good supply compared to protein. A dozen
SF News 95-Year-Old Lost Tugboat Found Near Farallones A nearly century-old mystery has been solved after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed this week that a shipwreck discovered on the ocean floor seven years ago is in fact the long
SF News First Woman Completes Swim From Farallones To San Francisco A San Francisco woman completed her 30-mile journey across shark-infested waters to become the first woman to swim from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge. Kim Chambers, a 38-year old New
SF News Sunken WWII Aircraft Carrier With Radioactive Material Found Off SF Coast Scientists announced yesterday that they have completed the first ever survey of a 623-foot-long World War II aircraft carrier sitting 2,600 feet below the ocean's surface, a full 30 miles off the
Arts & Entertainment Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About the Farallon Islands But Didn't Care to Ask On a clear day, you may have seen the spikes of rock jutting out from the Pacific off the coast of San Francisco. If you're new here, you probably asked what those were,
misc The Doubtful Guests Depart General consensus is that the whales have disappeared off into the ocean as mysteriously as they came. Possible next stop on their itinerary: the feeding areas near the Farallon Islands. We'll keep you
SF News Man Missing at Sea Gray, who has over ten years' experience sailing, set off on Sunday to scatter the ashes of his mother. When he didn't return, the Coast Guard started a search from Oregon to Monterey
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Comet Hunter - Crikey! C/2006 P1, known as Comet McNaught to friends, viewed at sunset from Twin Peaks towards the west, "over" the Farallon Islands Look at the size of him! The brightest comet in the
