Ferry Building : Farmers Market

Since we arrived back from Yosemite it seems San Francisco has just become its usual Summer / Winter climate. for the past couple of days, the fog has blown in during the night and by morning, has chilled the air to basically be a winters day minus the rain. the fog has been so bad it hasnt lifted all day, apart from an hour or two round 4 - 5PM. kinda makes it impossible to figure out when to go and see the coast or do a trip out to the bridge.

This affected our bus tour in particular as we figured we needed to slot that 2 day pass in sometime before the baseball game on sunday. we booked it mid week, hoping that although the first day was really really crappy, cold, and windy .... the second day could fine up and be better. well it turns out it wasnt, if anything it was worse, and i didnt even take out the camera it was that bad. its the strangest thing, because its like a fog cloud above the city only, you go 20mins into the outer bay regions or hills and BAM its 25 C and fine summer sun. it really put things on a slight downer and well, you guessed it, i caught the flu, a sluggy case of it that i couldnt shake, unlike the 24 hr mexican version. so hence once again, we never got those full sunshine perfect shots of the Golden Gate, actually we froze driving across it, but at least this time we got to see it up close, more than last time.

So where was i, oh yeh ... Saturdays Ferry Building outing. yeh i suggested the trip to Mark, as today there happened to be a farmers market on, allowing local produce owners and distributors to showcase some of their offerings to the public, outside of a large chain store etc etc. a quick note about the Ferry Building, located at the end of Market St (main strip in the downtown area) historically built in the 1800s, now services ferries for passengers to travel round the bay area. think of it as the E street markets just ... bigger SF style.

Arriving mid morning the area around and inside the building are marked off and dedicated to sellers and buyers. starting from artisans and local craftspeople, we moved through the displays onto vegetable and fruit growers, organic produce, meat and fish sellers, and .... local cookouts. personally for me i loved it, the food and beverages on sale from the locals alone was awesome and i wish we spent more time there, however Mark wasn't too impressed. even inside the building, the craziest things can be found. ive never seen so much variety in things such as mushrooms. the sun also came out for an hour or two which warmed things up briefly.