The quote is from 'Two Years Before the Mast', a classic sailing memoir of a Harvard student who drops out to become a common seaman on a trading schooner, rounds the Horn, and ends up trading what's then a very wild California coast.https://amzn.to/31iNnX4
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Dana?
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Too windy!
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I have read this somewhere before.
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Can you imagine what it would have been like to witness, “near the mouth of the bay...herds of hundreds and hundreds of red deer, and the stag, with his high branching antlers, [which] were bounding about” that he also wrote about that day?
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Hey what about Sydney. Been to SF many times love that harbour.
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and Melbourne
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near perfect weather? windy & its freezing in summer!
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That's San Francisco's microclimate at the tip of the peninsula. Quite different if you drive half an hour South, East or North.
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