Date: Friday, January 10, 10 am - 12:30 pm
Leader: Susan Schwartz
Start: Shimada Friendship Park, Richmond, Peninsula Drive and Marina Bay Parkway.

During one of winter's highest tides, this leisurely, level walk on paved trails will let us look at the Bay shore through many lenses: gritty industrial history, a current growing wealth of wetlands and wildlife (camera and binoculars welcome), the lingering legacies of toxic pollution, and what rising sea levels may bring in the near future.

Expect to see marshes and sloughs where birds including endangered Ridgeways rails find refuge, and hear stories at sites of railroad building, frog farming, a vanished resort, dynamite making, toxic dumps, and bits of nature snatched from development.

There is a restroom at the meeting place, but none along the way. We'll have tips on nearby lunch spots in Richmond's redeveloped Marina area.