11/18 Fernandez Ranch

A big group hiking today...17 of us! The 3.5 mile walk was just about perfect. There is new grass showing and baby ferns. Buckeye seeds were glowing among the miscellaneous seedlings. There were still leaves with color on oaks and big leaf maples. It was warm in the sun if you were out of the wind. Just a lovely November Wednesday in northern California!

When I first hiked here in Jan. 2012, there was a large spread of bones on a hillside a bit past the Viewpoint bench. Each subsequent visit has shown fewer bones, until now you really have to know where to look. I included a few images from that earlier visit when even Google Earth's photos showed the pile.

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11-04 Marina Bay and Rosie the Riveter

15 of us enjoyed the cool, bright, breezy day walking from Shimada Friendship Park at the end if Marina Bay Parkway to the Rosie the Riveter memorial at Marina Park, then on around the yacht harbor and  to the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historic Park next door to the old Ford Motor Plant (now Craneway Pavilion). We had lunch at Assemble restaurant rather than picnicking. After lunch many of the group visited the Columbia Hard Wear outlet before joining the rest at the Rosie Museum. Distance varied, but about 2.4 miles each way.

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