Day 31: Tasman Station to Borregas Station
(San Jose to Sunnyvale)
Circle The Bay Part 3
December 19th 2018
14.5 miles in 1 hrs 52 mins
(Total: 337.9 miles in 75 hrs 18 mins)
On the bike I spend more time exploring circular trails that jut out into the bay and its wetlands. Today I rode around a restored salt evaporation pond. There is no one else out there for miles of riding on barely tracked levees. And with recent rains its becomes an adventure to maintain complete traction.
At the south CA-237 end of the bay 3 notable creeks become brackish sloughs at their mouth, Coyote, Guadalupe, and San Tomas. Hard to imagine what it originally looked like with native vegetation down to the tidal mudflats at the edges of the sloughs as they curved and joined.
Visiting the north CA-37 end of the bay does help though. The Petaluma River winds through miles of wetland, and both sides of Sears Point have long stretches of open land down to the bay, not all of it historically used for agricultural or salt production.
Looking forward to seeing more restoration of bay wetland, for the most part letting nature do its thing with a little help from its friends.
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| Tasman Station |
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| Capitol Expressway Tracks |
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| Map of Alviso |
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| Alviso Underground Pipe Construction |
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| Disk Drive |
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| Mallards in Don Edwards SF Bay NWR |
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| Another Don Edwards SF Bay NWR center |
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| Outflow between restored salt ponds |
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| Inflow between restored salt ponds |
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| Capitol Corridor tracks between restored salt ponds |
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| Wildlife Refuge |
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| Adequate flood path for Guadalupe Creek under CA-237 |
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| CA-237 Bike Path rises up over San Tomas Creek Levee |
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| Retaining Wall along San Tomas Creek |
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| San Tomas Creek |
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