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San Francisco Carousel
Chariots await to whisk you and the kiddies past the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and
other SF landmarks hand-painted onto this Italian
carousel
(
www.pier39.com
;
Pier 39; admission
$3; 11am-7pm; )
, twinkling with 1800 lights. Old-timey organ carnival music inspires
goofy sing-alongs on the four-minute ride - and it's loud enough to drown out tiny tots
clinging for dear life to high-stepping horses.
San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park
'Aye, she's a beauty,' you'll growl like a salty dog once you've visited the
historic ships
(
www.nps.gov/safr
; adult/child $5/free; 9:30am-5pm Oct-May, to 7pm Jun-Sep)
open as museums along
Hyde St Pier - especially elegant 1891 schooner
Alma
and iconic c 1890 steamboat
Eureka
. Other boats resemble giant bath toys, including steam-powered paddlewheel tug-
boat
Eppleton Hall
and triple-masted, iron-hulled 1886 British
Balclutha
, which hauled
coal to San Francisco via Cape Horn.
