Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!shafe From: shafe@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mathew Shafe) Subject: Re: California Coast Sightseeing Message-ID: <1991Mar23.120226.13817@leland.Stanford.EDU> Organization: AIR, Stanford University References: <1991Mar22.021115.3032@cbnewsh.att.com> <1991Mar23.095742.14378@cimage.com> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 91 12:02:26 GMT Lines: 44 In article <1991Mar23.095742.14378@cimage.com> gregc@dgsi.UUCP (Greg Cronau/10000) writes: >In article <1991Mar22.021115.3032@cbnewsh.att.com> mrb1@cbnewsh.att.com (maurice.r.baker) writes: >>Hi --- >> >>On a trip to the West Coast last week, we had a chance to drive up >>Route 1 along the Pacific Coast from Monterey area to San Francisco. >> >>The scenery was beautiful, many of the coastal cliffs were breathtaking >>with the waves pounding up on them. >> >>In any case, I noticed what appeared to be a satellite tracking installation >>right by the shore at one point. If memory serves me correctly, it >>had 2 dish antennas....one larger than the other....and the bigger one >>looked like it was tracking something while it was in view. Couldn't spot >>any signs or (obvious) roads leading to it; kinda stuck out into the >>water away from everything else. >> >>When I found our location on the road map, it looked like we were at >>(or near) "Moss Beach"....there also was a little airport symbol on >>the map in the immediate area. >> >>Out of curiosity, what exactly is this installation? > >I have been wondering the same thing. When I went out to SF a few years >ago to visit some friends, they took me over to a stretch of beach just >south of SF. I believe it was Half-moon bay. The installation was on a >peninsula on the North end of the bay. Couldn't find it on any maps. > Last month, some friends and I went to Mirimar Beach in Half Moon Bay at about 2:00 am. We noticed the string of lights and decided to check it out when we left. We had to drive though a tuna fishing district to reach the difficult-to-find entrance. We passed a sign saying it was an Air Force Missile tracking station, northernmost in U.S. Not sure whether I remember it exactly word-for-word. A guard was posted at a pretty serious looking fence-gate. We did a quick U-turn and probably alarmed the guardquite a bit, considering the Gulf War at the time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : "Captain, it is illogical to eat chocolate cake without frosting." : "Shut up, Spock. Eat your Count Roddenberry cereal!" ---shafe@leleand.stanford.edu