We are located near Mount Tamalpais, the highest mountain in Marin County. Majestic, ethereal, and dressed in sunlight or layers of soft drifting fog, Mount Tamalpais, affectionately known as "Mt. Tam," physically dominates Marin County. A plethora of legends exist about separated or lost lovers on the mountain, with the most popular legend telling of an Indian maiden who ends up dying of a broken heart on top of or near Mt. Tam. The shape of Mt. Tam is said to resemble this "sleeping maiden." The indigenous people who lived here were the Miwok, but this area was known to other indigenous peoples as well. They called it Turtle Island, or Sweet Medicine Land. As the story goes, the North American Continent forms the back of a Great Turtle on which we all live. The tail is Florida, and the mouth is the San Francisco Bay. The left eye is Mt. Diablo (in the East Bay), and the holy right eye is Mt. Tamalpais. Great leaders of the Lakota Sioux were dragged on pole litters across the country to be buried on Mt. Tam.

Sausalito started out as Rancho Del Sausalito (Ranch of the Little Willow Grove). The springs in this area were a source of water for whaling ships and later for urban development in San Francisco. It was also known as a Portuguese fishing village. Sausalito remained obscure and mostly uninhabited until a rail line was built in the mid 1800s. The rail lines no longer run through Sausalito. Now it is an eclectic, artsy town and a fun place to work.

Our offices are located on Bridgeway in the former Naval Headquarters Building that oversaw the management of shipyards where Liberty Ships were built during World War II. The shipyard complex was called Marinship and has a rich maritime history, with one of the original buildings now housing the San Francisco Bay Model Museum, a tidal hydraulic model of the San Francisco Bay Delta Estuary.