Saturday two mates from my native using group and I carpooled as much as Sunnyvale. Our mother or father membership, Almaden Cycle Touring Membership, had a bird-watching experience that looped from Sunnyvale over to the shoreline path alongside San Francisco Bay, then previous a particular road in Mountain View subsequent to the Google campus the place egrets and herons nest. There have been surprisingly few birds within the bay in comparison with different occasions I’ve been on the shoreline path, however we had good luck seeing the nests and mama and half-grown child egrets. It was all in all a really good journey.
Twenty 5 miles in about two and a half hoursSurprisingly onerous work for a flat experience (Common coronary heart 124, max 159), on my non-assisted upright. There was a headwind for a very good little bit of the experience.Pelicans on this slough subsequent to San Francisco Bay
Blue Heron. Sorry it’s blurry
Now the trail is subsequent to south San Francisco BayThe Area-age trying constructing to the left is probably the most hanging constructing of the Googleplex, with the remainder of the campus to the suitable. Some nerd humor: Google’s identify is a play on phrases on the phrase “googol”. A “googol” is 10 to the hundredth energy. A”Googolplex” stands for ten to the ability of a googol, an unimaginably massive quantity. I don’t know what the dry space is within the foreground, presumably it’s a reclaimed former salt pond.Wanting south from the identical spot in the direction of Nasa Ames and Moffett subject. The massive rounded constructing to the suitable is airship hanger 1 whereas the 2 massive buildings to the left are airshiphangers 2 and three. These hangers at Moffett Subject date again to the Nineteen Thirties. Lockheed P-3 Orion plane used to take off from Moffett routinely on lengthy sub-detection missions. The noise of their turbopr takeoff was fairly pronounced the place we lived in Mountain View and Sunnyvale.The Googleplex up shut. We got here to see the Swallow’s nests beneath the balconyA child peeking out of one of many nestsThat is on a highway adjoining to the Google campus. The town of Mountain View blocked it off to motor autos when it was found that Egrets and Herons are nesting within the bushes alongside this road.These are the Eucalyptus bushes containing the nests. We noticed a mama Egret feeding her infants however I didn’t catch it on digicam. Our experience chief additionally noticed a heron in its nest however I couldn’t spot it.My spouse and I lived in these flats in Mountain View- 45 years in the past. The flats look about the identical, though they now have a fancier signal.
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I’m a Mechanical Engineer born in 1953, Ph. D, Stanford, 1980. I’ve been lively within the mechanical CAE subject for many years. I even have a lifelong curiosity in out of doors actions and health. I’ve had each hips changed and a coronary heart valve substitute resulting from a genetic situation. This weblog chronicles my adventures in staying lively regardless of these bumps within the highway.
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