Heading across the San Francisco Bay on Monday to do my early voting at the Norway Consulate (I've timed my trip badly and would otherwise miss the election back home), I managed to dodge the commuter traffic over the bridge (and also the city traffic crunch and parking chaos) by taking the passenger ferry from Sausalito instead. Not quite a pelagic birding trip as I only saw a few species along the way - most notably Brown Pelicans doing their own cross-bay commute.