Walking Distance: 6.4 mi. (estimate)
Walking Time: 2 hrs, 31 min. (4:06 p.m. - 6:37 p.m.)
Start and End Point: Public parking lot, near old site of "Building 122"; Oakland, CA
Today I enjoyed walking around the Oakland harbor, views of the San Francisco skyline, and the large cargo ship operations in the Port of Oakland (at the safe distance).
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From the parking lot, I walked toward the water, through a small, lawn-covered area and a walkway along the water. Geese and their goslings were romping around in this area.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOktHt8sQGwvSYj2-JOAI6R50NeGSut8PsaYyeSov4JfZDxQjZV7YwwVctKyj_BxmJGKUrDAFBPj1HIgYKHyd-zwU-d-2f45d1OBVGt1s_PpUSfi_-ojIpZMFsW15N9YiMQ9Q3WLMu1A/s200/Oakland.GooseFamily.5.5.11.600.jpg)
Once I reached the walkway along the Bay, I continued north on this path. I passed a playground area, in Portview Park, and turned around at the trail's end just past the fishing pier area, when I could walk no further (due to a chain link fence). Also, near the playground was a small building advertising a room with a view upstairs, but, unfortunately this building was closed by the time I walked by, and all prospective patrons had to view was a painted silhouette of a man waving from a window. Ahoy, matey, maybe next time.
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I then headed south to the other end of the Harbor, and when I reached this old ferry point location, I also walked through the building dedicated to a local figure who helped establish parks in the Oakland area. This end was also the best place to view and take photographs of a large cargo ship, loaded with stacks of metal shipping containers and the huge cranes there to service these ships.
3 pigeons; 1 ladybug; 7 swallows; 41 Canada geese (includes 19 goslings); 7 terns; 40 sea gulls; 4 doves; 95 ducks (includes 5 ducklings); 31 Western/Clark's grebes; 14 little brown jobs (LBJs); 137 unidentified brownish shorebirds (small and medium sized UBBs); 8 killdeer; 6 cormorants; 9 American Avocets; 1 starling; 5 brown pelicans; 1 blur in the bushes (BIB)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheP56NhbRSQwhKdAYpWSK5dAbg4PoCuHUMzGk9J5F56U3bvji9FIy7-jU1lssnWKRzk5TsfWvkE5aWRidDG7yy-5lQSXFwBCQVmaZZkqGH7Fb7t4vSr8ny_UCGEqJlBPS0bCTscIAq95k/s200/Oakland.MiddlHarbor.Geese.5.4.11.600.jpg)
Walking Time: 2 hrs, 31 min. (4:06 p.m. - 6:37 p.m.)
Start and End Point: Public parking lot, near old site of "Building 122"; Oakland, CA
Today I enjoyed walking around the Oakland harbor, views of the San Francisco skyline, and the large cargo ship operations in the Port of Oakland (at the safe distance).
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdmf1NwRl7NGd0K1Dfei-kLOjC-2bgT172D0UfgJ68Ofqc6zmU08P1_dgfXSXeiIdqMKqeW4hu61xAq60oEybz-OrAOSPYvPRyzqz9upZ8JW-IHjxTgLTlcgJKEUyEN85bssWwN26Bajc/s200/Oakland.Park.Bldg122.5.5.11.600.jpg)
From the parking lot, I walked toward the water, through a small, lawn-covered area and a walkway along the water. Geese and their goslings were romping around in this area.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTOktHt8sQGwvSYj2-JOAI6R50NeGSut8PsaYyeSov4JfZDxQjZV7YwwVctKyj_BxmJGKUrDAFBPj1HIgYKHyd-zwU-d-2f45d1OBVGt1s_PpUSfi_-ojIpZMFsW15N9YiMQ9Q3WLMu1A/s200/Oakland.GooseFamily.5.5.11.600.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8r2ISLSyujA-X85Ni6q0t1aOwrDsxmfmL7gc2GA6dwy4C42m2NKWeoIVZ0JYfmnGAEZibd_5EXT4pcBPvZ5ebqwD6NXhfWsPCk5c7fLyZM96E5k7IrKDkkoJZW8GHNBcCUod8XhfmFI0/s200/Oakland.Port.Beach.5.5.11.600.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiAhFPYLeQ6n8olLzoGl0YWpBKBVOrR_Y7tNcMVr3emkE2kqKFGdcLwwYSVr1_tHOK2E4clTRaVyJImjz2Gx0V1aFnzd6YHEumuYLLSE9DrRsZlmb9kv8jNeF-sNJLikn3yhpf4L_O320/s200/Oakland.Port.ContainrShip.5.5.11.600.jpg)
I then headed south to the other end of the Harbor, and when I reached this old ferry point location, I also walked through the building dedicated to a local figure who helped establish parks in the Oakland area. This end was also the best place to view and take photographs of a large cargo ship, loaded with stacks of metal shipping containers and the huge cranes there to service these ships.
Random observation for the day: At one point a had a ladybug hitchhiker that landed about where my watch would have been on my arm/wrist -- had I been wearing a watch. The ladybug stayed with me for quite a awhile.
Wildlife Sightings:
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