Agua Vista Park - AT&T Park - Dec. 4, 2009

Walking Distance: 1.72 miles
Walking Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes (2:20 - 3:50 p.m.)
Start & End Point: Agua Vista Park, along the water, in San Francisco, CA

It was interesting to see plans taking shape on today's walk up the Terry A. Francois street segment. Thank you to Toni, who accompanied me. We strolled (North) by the new biotech campus in the building phase, south of the ballpark; passed the striped blue and yellow Cirque du Soleil tents (the cirque was in town); and spent some time walking around McCovey Cove and the China Basin Park area across the water from the stadium. We continued North, over the bridge, to AT&T Park (where the San Francisco Giants play baseball (formerly known as PacBell Park)) -- walking out as far as the end of the pier near the marina.

It was a great day to see cormorants. This is the largest number I've seen to date in one area.

Wildlife Sightings:
31 pigeons; 7 brown pelicans; 63 cormorants; 17 sea gulls; 30 Western grebes; 24 little brown jobs (LBJs); 4 ducks; 1 sea lion; and 1 ball on a bench by the water.

Warm Water Cove Park - Agua Vista Park - Dec. 3, 2009

Walking Distance: 1.9 miles
Walking Time: 1 hr., 19 min. (2:35 - 3:54 p.m.)
Start & End Point: End of 25th Street, street parking

More city streets today, with a few peeks of Bay. From my parking spot at the end of 25th Street, I walked North, on Illinois Street (shown as double yellow lines on map), stopping at Warm Water
Cove Park to take a few pictures (my first view of some Bay). I also took a short detour up to 3rd St. to Sundance Coffee, for an iced tea to go.

I passed some new large commercial buildings around 17th/16th Sts., as yet unoccupied. My turn-around point was 16th St. (just North of Agua Vista Park/fishing pier).

On my walk back down Illinois, I passed some old, grand, but decrepit-looking abandoned buildings, and the Potrero Power plant.

Wildlife Sightings:
9 sea gulls; 21 little brown jobs (LBJs)/songbirds; 6 pigeons;
7 tiny unidentified brownish shorebirds; 15 ducks; 1 rusty screw;
and 2 cats w/ owner on sidewalk in front of live-in camper; and assorted urban detritus (a few single gloves, discarded pair of red flip flops, etc.)