| Add an Alcatraz island ferry ride
and audio Walking Tour of the prison - either to your morning Deluxe City
Tour or to your Muir Woods / Sausalito tour. Alcatraz island boat ride
enables you to see the bay and city skylines. Learn details of the famous
escape attempts. Hear about the infamous gangsters Al Capone and Machine
Gun Kelly. Visit the actual cellblocks and solitary confinement cells
used.
Some sections of Alcatraz are unsafe to visit. Areas
closed to the public are well marked by fences or barricades. Collecting
of any sort is prohibited. Plant and animal life are protected by law
- DO NOT feed birds on Alcatraz. No food service is available on Alcatraz,
however there is a picnic area located at the dock. Food, drinks and smoking
are only allowed on the dock. (An exception is bottled water, which is
available in the bookstore on the dock on Alcatraz.) Out in the middle
of the San Francisco Bay, the island of Alcatraz is a world unto itself.
Isolation, one of the constants of island life for any inhabitant - soldier,
guard, prisoner, Indian, bird or plant - is a recurrent theme in the unfolding
history of Alcatraz.
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