More shots from the kayak on the Carquinez Strait

More shots from the kayak on the Carquinez Strait.  These are photos that I thought might be interesting to someone else, but that I didn't like enough to post on flickr.com.

This is from the occupation of the Glen Cove waterfront park area by the Miwok, Ohlone, Patwin, and other indigenous peoples, due to a dispute over the Glen Cove shell mound(s).  (Please feel free to correct me if I have this wrong somehow.)

Crockett, west Contra Costa County, California.

Marker in Southampton Creek.  There was another marker in the same condition on the other side of the waterway, and a sign so weathered that I wasn't able to read it.  I suppose the message was "GO AWAY GET OUT OF HERE WE DON'T WANT YOU GET LOST," or words to that effect.

Oslo Bulk 8, Singapore, at the C&H dock in Crockett.

I was going to make this another fake Mono Lake shot on flickr, but I don't think I'll bother, since no on seems to get the joke.  (That is, they think it really is Mono Lake, or they just don't care.)

More Eckley pics

The pier again; these are the images that weren't posted on flickr.

Eckley pier

Waitin' for a train.  The stupid train actually stopped for several minutes, blocking the crossing, and it took so long to pass Eckley that two Amtrak trains passed it while I was waiting.

Kayak on the cart at the crossing

I saw other kayaks at Eckley for the first time.  I didn't get a chance to ask if they were locals or not.

Near the abandoned oil terminal upstream from Port Costa

Wharf bones near the pier

Stopped near Port Costa

Shots from the kayak on the Carquinez Strait

I've been bringing my old compact digital camera in a plastic bag when I go paddling on the strait, and sometimes the pictures aren't completely ruined by glare or water on the plastic.  (There are more shots of the area taken with the Pentax in my flickr photostream.)


The south shore on the Carquinez Strait has the remains of old wharves from Port Costa to the C&H property in Crockett.  There are hundreds of pilings, like these:

Wharf bones

More wharf skeletons

The Eckley slalom course

Eckley ruins

C&H is downstream from the wharf skeletons.  Sometimes there's a ship at their dock (this one is the Moku Pahu), but I think the view's interesting whether there is or not.

The Moku Pahu at C&H

The Moku Pahu, with the Carquinez bridges in the background

The kayak Kayak and the Moku Pahu

Port Costa is upstream.  There's a sometimes-shady beach that makes an ideal place to pull out and look for camera batteries, provided there's aren't a bunch of people fishing there.  (You morning people may have to do without shade).  That's Mt. Diablo in the background.

Port Costa shore

These last two weren't shot from the kayak - I'll let you guess why.