The Bayside

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Where: Coyote Hills Regional Park
Hike: The Bayside from the bible


While I was just browsing through the bible, I found this unticked. The weather was playing hide & seek & this was a safer option than Tomales Point.
Thanks to Gayathri for all the winter gear for S.😊


It is really funny we did not know about this place so close from home. That is the main reason I fell in love with the book. The book holds gems in every page. But apparantly, this is a well known park. We parked outside & chose to walk the extra mi into the park. When we got to the park entrance, the entrance fee machine was out of service & the entrance was free.(On other days enter paying $5).
But the weather was cool & cloudy with varying landscape & I had no regrets we walked.
We paid a visit to the visitor center. S had so much fun. She recognized all the animals in there & she was overjoyed to see a Western painted turtle in a fish tank. It was so much fun to see her talk to the turtle(saying hi & all). She had run around so much that she promptly fell asleep soon after we took the bayview trail. She had her share of spotting birds before that. So! 😊

But once she was awake, she had to be bribed with a stuffed squirrel to sit back in her carrier. And that was after a good 0.5mi - 0.75mi hike(read her leg should have hurt). What to say? Parents were happy! not about the pain, but about her hike. She is outgrowing the backpack & unless something drastic happens(like she starts walking on her own) we are in soup. 😊

The hike from the book reads 2.5 mi. But we had a total of ~5 mi including the walk from/to the car.
It was a short, easy & pleasant hike. Now is the time to go. The hike is all in the open. I would not even want to imagine to do this hike when it is sunny. But the trail runs so close to the bay & it definitely is a good thing.

Looks like we took more photos than the hike itself. It felt so good to see the world from the eyes of my DSLR once again.

P.S: pan photo credit: Ganesh!

~travelbuffs
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"When spring comes the grass grows by itself. "
-- Tao Te Ching

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Photos

Yellow, yellow...
beautiful fellow

This is when
someone woke up from sleep & would not go back to her seat

Some big bird..
G claims it is a falcon, is that G?

We just had to be there now
hadn't we?

heron
I reckon

and ended like this
kids!!!

Comments

[Josevich]

wow
stunning photos! i especially love the one entitled perspective. it evokes emotions. thats art

[geetha]

Hi, this seems like an interesting place for birds. Wondering what this place would be during the peak birding time. Have fun!