Bayland Park

Date: 03/25/06
Park: Bayland Park, Palo Alto, CA
Condition: Cold and Windy and some rain
Start time: About 1PM
Length: About 2 hours
Hikers: Sarah, Maria and JC
Trail: Ad-hoc
Pictures: http://jc-studios.smugmug.com/gallery/1306509/1/61537825
Views: Shoreline Lake, East Bay, Mountain View, Dumbarton Bridge. Animals and birds include: Sea Gulls, Egret, Canadian Goose, and furry insects 毛毛虫. We were hiking and some rain got us. All in all, not enough rain to get us wet so it is fine. Some of the water are strangely reddish in color. But I have seen reddish water around the bay, I have seen it in the East Bay Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. A black and yellow stripe body spider (color stripe like a bee) followed us into my car. The body is as big as a quarter. It crawl on my hand when we were way out of the park. It wanted to follow us home. Hahaha.... Some one was so scared..... Hahaha..... Not me. Hahaha.... I was driving and is so calm. I just open the window and shake it off.......

Monte Bello Open Space Preserve

Date: 03/18/06
Park: Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, Woodside, CA
Condition: A lot of Sun with Haze and a bit cool
Start time: About 2PM
Length: About 5.3 Miles
Hikers: Maria and JC
Trail: http://www.bahiker.com/southbayhikes/monte.html
Pictures: http://jc-studios.smugmug.com/gallery/1287616/1/60514385
Views: A paranomic view of the bay area and sunsets. Animals included a coyote, a few deers. Not much wild flowers yet. We saw a big sag pond with plenty of vegetation. The trail is a little bit muddy with sometimes small streams flowing along it. The mud is yellowish in color. Wong Nei Chung. Waterfalls are common. A portion of the trail is along Stevens Creek, which the water flow is quite rapid. We went just after a few days of constant spring rain and weird California weather so the water is abundant. There are some trees that the leaves looked like flowers. Funny event is I spend a lot of time looking for places that I could hide doing natural things, twice. And nothing more to go when there is a real toilet. Hahaha.... It took us 4.5 hours to finish the hike because of this delay.