The Port of Oakland used to offer FREE Harbor Tours for all of you Oakland History buffs. I have personally gone on this tour twice since I used to work at the Port. You take a nice slow cruise through the Ports Harbor viewing all of the ships and cranes! It’s pretty amazing and you get to hear a lot of facts and history you just may have never learned otherwise. It is also a GREAT chance to take pictures of the cranes as well!
*UPDATE* As many of you know they are NOT doing the Tour this year(2009). Sad but true.
Update 2013: They have not offered the free harbor tours in a few years and I don’t think they are coming back.
Update 2014: Yeah, it’s over. It’s been a great many years and the Port of Oakland has undergone a few scandals. They are misdirected and lost.
Anke Van Aardenne says
I cannot find the dates for the City of Oakland free harbor tours.
I’d like to take my two grandchildren living in S.CA on one of these tours.
Please inform me,
Anke