New buoys waited on shore for deployment. The canal was being widened and deepened for the post-panamax ships, and as that work completed, new buoys were deployed.

While on the Whale Watching Cruise out of Monterey Bay, we passed this buoy with several seal lions napping on it.

The outer swimming limit of the beach at Middle Harbor Shoreline Park in Oakland, California was marked with a buoy. But at this time the tide was out, so the buoy rested on sand.

A small round buoy painted white with a horizontal blue stripe was found just outside the departure port.

It was a stormy afternoon on San Francisco Bay as we passed buoy number 8 on our way back to the City.

A cylindrical buoy was found in the Sacramento River just before sunset.

A home brewed mooring buoy was found floating just off shore from Quepos, Costa Rica.

A yellow mooring buoy was found floating just off of Piers 32/34 in San Francisco. That buoy had a radar reflector tied to it.

A buoy with the number 2 on it was found floating on San Francisco Bay with a seagull floating next to it.

A yellow buoy found just outside a marina on the San Francisco side of the bay.

A navigation buoy found in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It marked part of the shipping channel from the Golden Gate under the Bay Bridge and into Oakland.

A pile of rusty old buoys was found in a storage yard just outside Saint-Valery, France. Here, some really derelict examples were piled against a cinder-block wall.

In a field behind a row of storage lockers we found a pile of unused buoys. One might have had a number 9 on it, provided it was not upside down.

A pile of buoys in a storage yard just outside Saint-Valery France. Only one buoy had a number visible and that was buoy number 3.

A yellow topped buoy lay at rest in a yard adjacent to a field of yellow mustard plants in Saint-Valery, France.