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Three Days: Pinnacles and the Carrizo Plain
Three days out this trip — Pinnacles East on the way down, a full day on the Carrizo Plain, then back through Pinnacles West on the way home. Two very different landscapes barely two hours apart, and both worth the detour. Day One: Pinnacles, East Side Pinnacles only became California’s newest national park in 2013,…
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Tilden Regional Park
Started up at the Grizzly Peak vista point, which on a clear day gives about as good a panorama of the Bay as you’ll find anywhere. From there onto Seaview and the Big Springs Loop Trail — a good stretch of ridge walking with the views opening and closing as the trail winds through. Finished…
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Las Gallinas, Revisited
Back to Las Gallinas for another round, a few weeks on from last time — and this visit turned up some mammal action to go with the birds. A mute swan to start, then an otter working the water — always a treat when one of those turns up. A white-crowned sparrow, then two green…
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Three Days Down Highway 1 to Half Moon Bay
Took a few days in and around Half Moon. Some stops along the way. Not that far from home but good to get away. Day One An early afternoon start further north along the coast, then a gap of a few hours before picking the camera back up in the early evening light. Then back…
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An Afternoon of Birds at Las Gallinas
Spent a Sunday afternoon at the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District ponds — not the most glamorous name for a place, but one of the best birding spots in Marin, and it more than delivered. A snowy egret, a red-winged blackbird, and a mute swan within the first half hour — a promising start. A…
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Marin County Civic Center — Frank Lloyd Wright, Right on Our Doorstep
A Valentine’s Day wander to a local classic building — the Marin County Civic Center is right here in San Rafael, and it’s the only public building Frank Lloyd Wright ever built that you can properly walk through (his other government commission, the nearby post office, is a much smaller affair across the road). It…
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