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About San Quentin
The famous and exciting town of San Quentin California is much more than the infamous prison by the same name. Although San Quentin prison is one of the most well-known locations in the town, for a family vacation, San Quentin offers much more than solitary confinement and three hots and a cot! For starters, San Quentin California offers some of the best fish and in all of northern California.
The fishing Village of San Quentin California has a few motels on the bay, a fair amount of vacation homes sprinkled here and there, a fantastic and thriving oyster farming industry, and some of the friendliest fisher-folk the side of the Mississippi! The Worcester industry is a big commercial resource for San Quentin California and is almost year-round in production and edible endeavors. The oysters of San Quentin Bay are actually Canadian imports, which were originally brought in from Montréal via Japan around the early 1900s. The common names include the Japanese oyster, Miagi Oyster, immigrant oyster, and Giant Pacific oyster. A rose by any other name smells just as sweet as these oyster varieties can be even sweeter! The town of San Quentin California is awash with the smell of the sea and the boats that come in with their catches of Spanish Mackerel often, and Pacific Salmon makes for fresh fish all the time!
When the most favorite locations for any visitor that comes to the town of sanguine California has to be the ‘Bay of 11,000 Virgins’. Located only five hours south of Tijuana on the avenues or highway this natural and exciting location is one the best fishing areas in the entire world. Make the trip to san Quentin California one that will not require a day pass and will be without bars and bad cellmates! Anytime of the year is good to visit San Quentin California with the summer being the most populated and most temperate of all the seasons in northern California.
