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Marshall’s Beach

San Francisco is a city that is full of amazing places for photography. However, when I am asked what my favorite spot is in the city, it is hard for me to not default to Marshall’s Beach. This small stretch of sand on the southwest side of the Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful places in California with the massive rocks, waves crashing on the sand, and the staggering Golden Gate Bridge providing a backdrop to it all. If you want to check it out, here is all the information.

 

Details

1 mile walk
250 feet of elevation gain
Do not leave anything valuable in your car as there are often break ins
Parking at Golden Gate Bridge Overlook
This information is from my visit in 2018
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Getting There

Marshall’s Beach is a popular summer destination, but getting there might be a hassle due to limited parking. However, it is reachable via foot from the Golden Gate Bridge’s main welcome center or through the Bluffs and Batteries Trail.
The Trip to Marshall’s Beach on Foot

The aforesaid photo was taken at the Golden Gate Bridge Overlook. About 30 vehicles can be parked in the dirt lot, and on weeknights, it’s usually not too crowded. Again, automobile break-ins are common in this neighborhood, so keep your valuables inside.

You’ll be leaving the parking lot through the trail that begins in the southwest corner. A sign marks the beginning of the set of stairs that lead down to Marshall’s Beach, from which this path continues for another tenth of a mile.

As you make your way down the trail’s numerous flights of stairs, you’ll be treated to breathtaking vistas of the coast. Keep in mind that the return trip is an uphill slog along the same stairs.

As you step out onto the sand, look to your right to take in a breathtaking panorama of the Golden Gate Bridge; this is the direction you’ll want to keep going in to reach Marshall’s Beach.

Since the whole place is so picturesque, I normally just go around and take pictures anywhere that strikes my fancy.

However, if you venture past the rocks, you’ll find an excellent vantage point for taking pictures of the bridge.

You’re free to stay as long as you like, but remember that you’ll have to retrace your steps to get to your vehicle. When I come here, I can always count on seeing at least a handful of other photographers.

Leave a comment below and tell me whether you believe that this location is one of the best places in the city to watch the sun go down.

Graffiti reading “Khalistan zindabad” was found on a Hindu temple in Toronto, and both India and Canada condemned the act.

Spray-painted messages reading “Khalistan zindabad” (long live Khalistan) and “Hindustan murdabad” (death to India) were found on the gates of BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir, one of the largest temples in Canada, in what is being called a hate crime (death to India).

The Canadian high commissioner in India, Cameron MacKay, and the Indian embassy in Canada both issued statements strongly denouncing the vandalism.

I, like many other Canadians, am appalled by the vandalism of Toronto’s BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir. MacKay argued that all houses of worship should be treated with dignity and that hatred has no place in Canada.

In the meantime, the Indian embassy in Canada has demanded an investigation into the incident and swift action against the culprits.

The BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir also published a statement Thursday calling for calm and describing the unnamed culprits as “anti-social individuals.”

The BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto, Canada issued a statement on their website reading, “We are horrified and disturbed by the anti-India graffiti at the gates of the temple by anti-social groups.”

The status of any local probe into the incident is unknown.

In a similar event a month ago, six individuals used a sledgehammer to smash a Mahatma Gandhi statue that had been painstakingly constructed and displayed outside a temple in Queens, New York. Offensive graffiti was also seen on the road outside the Queens temple where the event took place.

 

Recent vandalism in the United States and Canada

In recent years, there has been widespread vandalism across the United States and Canada, particularly targeting statues of Mahatma Gandhi.

In July, the words “Khalistan” and “rapist” were spray-painted on a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at a Hindu temple in Richmond Hill, Canada.

An 8-foot-tall statue of Gandhi in Union Square in Manhattan was vandalised in February. In front of the Indian embassy in Washington, DC, Khalistani-supporters desecrated a Gandhi statue in December 2020.

A deity at the Swaminarayan Temple in Kentucky, United States, was splattered with black paint in January 2019.

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