@sfchronicle: “The Sandpiper,” a wooden sailing ship from the 19th century, has washed up on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, where it sits broken apart on the shore. That’s the tall tale behind Shipwreck Cove, a playground that opens Saturday as a mystery for kids to solve. The young adventurers go up a plank to inspect the mast, climb a rope ladder to the crow’s nest, and dig in the sand for sunken treasure — or maybe the skeleton of Billy Bones the pirate. The treasure hunt begins at 3 p.m. with the singing of sea shanties by a band of old salts, hoisting of a flag atop the mast, and the breaking of a piñata in the shape of a Champagne bottle. The festivities will mark with an X the only playground on the 2-mile stretch of city park that forms Sunset Dunes, the oceanfront pedestrian promenade created by the closure of the Great Highway between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard during the COVID-19 pandemic, made permanent when voters approved Prop K in November 2024. The play structure, commissioned by Friends of Sunset Dunes and in planning and construction for a year, was a top priority in community surveys conducted by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. Under a pilot program, it will be in place for one year under a permit from the park department, though it could be extended indefinitely. It could also be dismantled and removed if a voter initiative to reopen the Great Highway to weekday automobile traffic, Prop G, passes in the Nov. 3 election. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle

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Saturday 26 September 2026 22:30:00 GMT