alviso slough and salt ponds tour 7/30/05

end of alviso slough

shrimp boat

grounded boat

the bottom/city end of the Alviso Slough, location of the historic (since 1896) South Bay Yacht...

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an old shrimping boat, docked at the South Bay Yacht Club, in Alviso

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the top of the historic South Bay Yacht Club (behind a high levee that protects the town from...

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squatters boat

squatters boats

two curlews

an illegal squatters boat/encampment in the Alviso Slough

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another view of the illegal squatter's boats (see previous image), Alviso Slough

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two large sandpipers called curlews, in early morning light along the edge of Alviso Slough

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slough, early morning

tules

tules & wake

the Alviso Slough as our boat putted out toward the bay, accompanied by some gulls...

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a mix of salt-water tules (foreground) and fresh-water tules (background -- a sure sign that tidal...

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tules & our boat's wake -- very still morning in the Alviso Slough...

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electric towers

heron & electrical towers

towers & shorebirds

electric towers crossing Alviso Slough

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blue heron hanging out under the electrical towers, Alviso Slough

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back to the Alviso set: electric towers, & in the foreground, if you closely, a few...

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tules in sun

tom laine explaining

slough arm

more saltwater tules in the alviso slough, standing tall in the sunshine

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this is Tom Laine, who grew up beside the Alviso Slough and has fished and shrimped it and...

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panoramic view of one arm of the slough branching off from the main channel...

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pelicans flying & landfill

lots of birds

egrets

white pelicans flying over the alviso slough, with a big landfill in the background...

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thousands of birds (mostly seagulls, but also a lot of shorebirds, like sandpipers, avocets,...

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three snowy egrets, stalking along the banks...

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