The Embarcadero at San Diego.

OK, let’s start with a definition, I mean what the heck is an Embarcadero? There is one in San Francisco, there is one in San Diego… is it a Spanish term, is it a word fraught with great meaning? No, actually it is merely “a pier or wharf, especially a waterfront section that’s been commercially developed.” Big Deal.

So my day at the Embarcadero started out the way all the other days in San Diego have started: gray.
The fog rolled in, bringing a grayness to everything it touched. Eventually the fog burned off but remnants still hung around.

There is a great big ship behind that little boat, lost in the fog…

Buildings disappeared into the fog.

It didn’t help that a majority of the ships are US Navy… battleship gray. Even the ever- present gulls took on a gray tint.

A boat named Walk? Or maybe it means you would be better off walking.

Across the water, in the Naval shipyard, a modern-day super carrier, CVN-68, USS Nimitz, is moored.

November 23, 2008