Baylands Park

Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:59:59 -800

Jason drove from Sacramento to my dad's house in Sunnyvale to spend a few days
in the Bay Area. He arrived shortly after noon, and we went hiking with
Woodley in the fog and the cold at
Baylands
Park. The trail is not difficult at all--merely a flat 6.7 mile
loop out into the Bay, around a trash dump, past the Palo Alto airport and
then back to the parking lot along the freeway. Most of the area is wetlands
and former salt ponds that are being turned back into marshes. Along the way
there were ducks (ac280035), a great white bird (ac280036), a lot of saturated
mud (ac280038), and an egret (ac280046). So much for the natural beauty of
the place.