The Sunshine and Beach I Told You About

Everyone knows that the San Francisco Bay is cold. Miserably cold. At high tide, frigid Pacific water rushes in to put a nice chill on everything. Well, almost everything. You see, there is a strange part of Alameda, where a shallow shelf extends quite far from the beach, so that on a hot day, the water heats up beautifully, particularly at low tide, when the flow of water is going out to sea.

This is what it looks like:

You might be tempted to walk to San Francisco, but it doesn't stay shallow quite that far.

However, you can stay on the Alameda side and watch plenty of shore birds:

Who make great tracks in the mud:

Whether or not you will find intelligent life is a mystery, but we did spot a mermaid sunning herself:

And, later, floating on her back:

We also found canals, perhaps dug by some aliens:

And, sure enough, we found the Corps of Engineers that the Alien Race has to dig these canals:

And, hey, the fishing is great! Look at this keeper (and that's a pretty good fishie she caught, too):