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| | Hiking | 6.50 Miles | 3 Hrs 6 Mns | | 2.71 mph |
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| no partners | | I needed an easy hike by the beach for my birthday, and this fit that requirement to a 'T'. The Bay Area has been suffering from a heat wave since June 28th, and I expected the beach to be jammed. I found easy parking a little after noon, though the beach still seemed fairly crowded. Even the traffic to and from Limantour Beach was lighter than it is on a typical Saturday. A lot of the traffic problems I encounter heading out to the Marin Coast stem from the Wine Country crowd (on the way home to Walnut Creek), people heading to San Francisco for Saturday night (both directions), and obviously people headed to the coast. All in all, that made for a decent birthday present by itself.
The hike was cool, but I got way too much sun courtesy of forgetting to bring a hat. Brisk wind about 20 knots, but not enough to whip up a lot of sand. The most memorable part was seeing the dozen or so harbor seals at the end of the spit. They were wary of me, and seemed quite wild. Two gentlemen proposed to each other about 30 yards away from me as I was video recording the seals. I imagine there were lots of similar scenes around the Bay Area last weekend considering last week's Supreme Court decision and the fact that this weekend was Pride Weekend in SF.
It was cool to see a relatively unspoiled estuarine ecosystem. There are cattle in about half of Limantour Estuary's watershed, but their numbers are kept down. I saw mud flats that had tens of thousands of "blowholes" belonging to mollusks every acre so pollution must not be too bad. I imagine Mission Beach in San Diego looked like this area before it was dredged and developed. Pics on the way, but I screwed up the video by zooming in. |
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