SF: Alcatraz (Day 3 part 1)

Alcatraz!!! This was probably my favorite tour of the trip and the one I looked forward to the most. If you ever plan on going, book it early! I would have loved to taken the night tour (especially on Halloween), but it was sold out for weeks! I think I ended up booking our tour 2 weeks in advance. Every tour includes audio and is narrated by former correctional officers and former inmates...

"Break the rules and you go to prison, break the prison rules and you go to Alcatraz"

On the ferry going to "The Rock"

Guard tower

Indians were the first people to inhabit the island

Isolation

Another isolation unit

The keys the inmates were trying to take from the correctional officers during the bloodiest escape attempt

Typical cell

The dummy heads the three inmates who escaped used to fool the guards

The hole the three inmates chiseled using spoons according to the legend

The pipes the three inmates had to climb to get to the roof

Recreational yard