Circle the Bay: Day 11: Vallejo Ferry to San Pablo Creek

Day 11: Vallejo Ferry to San Pablo Creek

(Vallejo to San Pablo)

Circle The Bay Part 3

May 16th 2018

27.9 miles in 4 hrs 27 mins

(Total: 229.7 miles in 40 hrs 48 mins)

On Sunday when we took the Vallejo Ferry back to San Francisco I spotted a large white stadium size building near the shore just north of Pinole Point, the fishing pier that juts a quarter mile out into the bay where the Pinole Wharf used to stand. I googled the area and found it was an Amazon fulfillment center (insert picture from ferry here). I've never shipped inventory there, so it was a bit of a surprise. Maybe they have different tiers of fulfillment centers, the long tail inventory kept cheaper by being more remote to large populations.

After crossing the Carquinez Bridge, the Bay Trail traverses Rodeo, Hercules, and Pinole in the most promising sections of the trail, and the most frustrating at present. This terrain is controlled by the curve of railroad tracks as they bend from east-west in the Carquinez Strait to the north-south alignment through Richmond and onto the East Bay. Land long neglected for public use, the regional parks are working on a plan to hook up all the stretches of trail that exist into one smooth path. A beautiful bridge is under construction to carry pedestrians and bicyclists over the tracks at one crucial junction of railroad lines. That would have saved a mile or so.

And there other issues where trails end at a property owners fence, a field and a train track away from where it starts again. But the biggest piece of incompletion is near where all the Amazon warehouse constructions is furiously under way. I have hopes in a year this section will be twice as complete as it is today.