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Jim Walker ~ January 27, 2010
The Redwood City Bay side is a Truly Unique Area |
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The Redwood City Bay side is a truly unique area. When you are out in the water between the islands looking back at civilization you realize how much beauty is within your grasp in RWC.
I have preferred to kayak out in the Redwood City Harbor and the estuaries that flow into it before the harbor reaches the bay. I am sure not many people realize that it is over 1.4 miles along Redwood Creek, which is the harbor, to get to Redwood point and the beginning of the bay. Everything between is full of fish, birds, mammals of all types and history.
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A few kayak trips ago I was out without my camera and came across over 50 pelicans preening, dancing, sleeping and feeding on a shell beach just before the beginning of the bay. It was incredible. The poses, antics and feeding were unique. I had know ideas that pelicans will stand in a small river of several inches with there bills sideways in the water for up to 3 minutes letting the water flow thru and in the end catching small fingerlings to eat and kind of dumping the rocks out. Very neat. You see a lot like that out there. Did you know that many Pelicans sleep floating on the water while the cormorants like to fill up the power polls. I counted over 200 on one tower. |
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I have seen seals, owls, fox, rats 5 types of ducks, Canadian geese, pelican, hearns, tits, calif. tarantula, jack rabbits and many more bird types from gulls to hawks cruising out on the islands. I have also found antique bottles, brass parts, door handles, bricks, cobblestones etc out there from our Redwood City history. |
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Another interesting point is that there was a 50,000 sq ft canning plant out at the bay point where people lived and worked. The ships came in to take out California's supply of canned fish in the 1890's thru the 20's when the factory burned down. I have found lots of antique bottles from whiskey to medicine that the locals used and threw in the bay. 100 years later the channels change releasing the bottles for me to find. It is a ton of fun. |
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If you have a chance to get out there do it, no one else does. It is beautiful.
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