Here are some pics from a visit to Bayfront Park on Monday.
A look at a lagoon.
Wild mustard.
One of the northern shovelers in the lagoon.
The hills are green and are full of wild mustard and wild radish in bloom.
A salt pond, soon to be converted back to original salt marsh, with a strange black void (which is just a deeper part of the pond).
Anything falling into the salt pond eventually develops a crust of salt in the supersaturated solution.
On the right, the old, bare salt pond surface is a harsh moonscape prior to habitat restoration. Eventually it will be a natural salt marsh, with varying plant communities and a lot more wildlife.
Feral gazanias, garden escapees that have naturalized in several places in the park.
A hummingbird perches on a dead fennel flower stalk.
A couple of passenger jets fly overhead at about 3700' on their approach to San Francisco International Airport, 13 miles to the northwest.
It's a wide-open, flat, nearly featureless landscape.
A piece of corroded electronic trash embedded in the levee.
The view from the shore of the salt pond, which has a channel still full of bay water.
A ground squirrel keeps watch from atop a boulder on the levee.
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