Foster City - San Mateo - Feb. 11 '12

Walking Distance: 1.9 miles (estimate)
Walking Time: 56 min. (3:00 - 3:56 p.m.)
Start and End Point: Street parking on Beach Park Boulevard, Foster City, CA

Today I reached the end of Beach Park Blvd., and crossed under San Mateo bridge (Highway 92), where I continued toward San Mateo. I turned around at a bench before a golf driving range/putting complex with high net fence, and I walked back the same way.

Wildlife Sightings:
33 ducks (mixed); 22 sea gulls; 11 little brown jobs; 4 pigeons; 4 crows; 3 feral cats; 2 cormorants; 1 kite (bird); 1 bumblebee; 1 brown rat

Foster City - San Mateo Bridge - Oct. 20, 2009

Walking Distance: 2.61 miles
Walking Time: ~ 1 hr., 27 minutes (4:11 - 5:38 p.m.)
Start & End Point: Street parking, across from Beach Park Plaza Shopping Center, Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, CA

Thanks to Sandy D. for joining me in this walk, where we had a chance to catch up while walking under the San Mateo bridge (see picture) and exploring realms beyond. (The San Mateo County Fishing Pier was closed, so we couldn't walk out onto it.) It was a sunny, breezy day, with fairly clear visibility (due to rains yesterday). Two windsurfers zipped along the surface of the Bay in the distance,

Wildlife Sightings:
5 crows; 3 cormorants; 2 sea gulls; 4 Western grebes (in the Bay); 2 little brown jobs (LBJs); 3 brown pelicans; 4 snails; 55 unidentified brownish shorebirds; and 15 American avocets -- seen from a distance (and they could have been unidentified brownish shorebirds). The one mystery animal I can identify (see image at right) is the feral cat that was rooting around in the rocks.