This session captured photographs at Dumbarton Point from the levee that separates Salt Pond N3 from South San Francisco Bay. Dumbarton Point is the eastern side of a constriction in the width of the bay. Thus, it became the natural place to stage bay crossings of various types. Here you will find the remnant of the 1920s highway bridge, now a fishing pier, and the contemporary 1980s bridge that replaced it. Just south of the highway lies the c. 1908 Dumbarton Cutoff Line railway bridge and the adjacent c. 1930s Hetch Hetchy pipeline that brought Sierra Nevada water to San Francisco. This is the place where high tension electrical lines cross the bay and Cargill has an underwater pipeline here to bring salt brine from the Redwood ponds eastward.

For this session, I was able to drive the van to the south end of the levee and stage from there. The day offered good views of the Dumbarton Cutoff Line bridge, the Hetch Hetchy pipeline, and the ruins of an old landing out in the mudflat. As will be evident in the photographs, I was also quite taken with the patina and textures of the exposed tidal mudflat. This mudflat is broad hereabouts at low tide and hosts a fine gathering of shorebirds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Tags:   Fremont California United States Bay Nature SFB KAP kite aerial photography Hidden Ecologies Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge SBSPRP South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project salt ponds South San Francisco Bay Bay Trail N3 Hetch Hetchy Dumbarton Point Dumbarton Cutoff Line swing bridge mudflat

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This session captured photographs at Dumbarton Point from the levee that separates Salt Pond N3 from South San Francisco Bay. Dumbarton Point is the eastern side of a constriction in the width of the bay. Thus, it became the natural place to stage bay crossings of various types. Here you will find the remnant of the 1920s highway bridge, now a fishing pier, and the contemporary 1980s bridge that replaced it. Just south of the highway lies the c. 1908 Dumbarton Cutoff Line railway bridge and the adjacent c. 1930s Hetch Hetchy pipeline that brought Sierra Nevada water to San Francisco. This is the place where high tension electrical lines cross the bay and Cargill has an underwater pipeline here to bring salt brine from the Redwood ponds eastward.

For this session, I was able to drive the van to the south end of the levee and stage from there. The day offered good views of the Dumbarton Cutoff Line bridge, the Hetch Hetchy pipeline, and the ruins of an old landing out in the mudflat. As will be evident in the photographs, I was also quite taken with the patina and textures of the exposed tidal mudflat. This mudflat is broad hereabouts at low tide and hosts a fine gathering of shorebirds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Tags:   Fremont California United States Bay Nature SFB KAP kite aerial photography Hidden Ecologies Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge SBSPRP South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project salt ponds South San Francisco Bay Bay Trail N3 Hetch Hetchy Dumbarton Point Dumbarton Cutoff Line swing bridge mudflat

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This session captured photographs at Dumbarton Point from the levee that separates Salt Pond N3 from South San Francisco Bay. Dumbarton Point is the eastern side of a constriction in the width of the bay. Thus, it became the natural place to stage bay crossings of various types. Here you will find the remnant of the 1920s highway bridge, now a fishing pier, and the contemporary 1980s bridge that replaced it. Just south of the highway lies the c. 1908 Dumbarton Cutoff Line railway bridge and the adjacent c. 1930s Hetch Hetchy pipeline that brought Sierra Nevada water to San Francisco. This is the place where high tension electrical lines cross the bay and Cargill has an underwater pipeline here to bring salt brine from the Redwood ponds eastward.

For this session, I was able to drive the van to the south end of the levee and stage from there. The day offered good views of the Dumbarton Cutoff Line bridge, the Hetch Hetchy pipeline, and the ruins of an old landing out in the mudflat. As will be evident in the photographs, I was also quite taken with the patina and textures of the exposed tidal mudflat. This mudflat is broad hereabouts at low tide and hosts a fine gathering of shorebirds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Tags:   Fremont California United States Bay Nature SFB KAP kite aerial photography Hidden Ecologies Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge SBSPRP South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project salt ponds South San Francisco Bay Bay Trail N3 Hetch Hetchy Dumbarton Point Dumbarton Cutoff Line swing bridge mudflat

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This session captured photographs at Dumbarton Point from the levee that separates Salt Pond N3 from South San Francisco Bay. Dumbarton Point is the eastern side of a constriction in the width of the bay. Thus, it became the natural place to stage bay crossings of various types. Here you will find the remnant of the 1920s highway bridge, now a fishing pier, and the contemporary 1980s bridge that replaced it. Just south of the highway lies the c. 1908 Dumbarton Cutoff Line railway bridge and the adjacent c. 1930s Hetch Hetchy pipeline that brought Sierra Nevada water to San Francisco. This is the place where high tension electrical lines cross the bay and Cargill has an underwater pipeline here to bring salt brine from the Redwood ponds eastward.

For this session, I was able to drive the van to the south end of the levee and stage from there. The day offered good views of the Dumbarton Cutoff Line bridge, the Hetch Hetchy pipeline, and the ruins of an old landing out in the mudflat. As will be evident in the photographs, I was also quite taken with the patina and textures of the exposed tidal mudflat. This mudflat is broad hereabouts at low tide and hosts a fine gathering of shorebirds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Tags:   Fremont California United States Bay Nature SFB KAP kite aerial photography Hidden Ecologies Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge SBSPRP South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project salt ponds South San Francisco Bay Bay Trail N3 Hetch Hetchy Dumbarton Point Dumbarton Cutoff Line swing bridge mudflat

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This session captured photographs at Dumbarton Point from the levee that separates Salt Pond N3 from South San Francisco Bay. Dumbarton Point is the eastern side of a constriction in the width of the bay. Thus, it became the natural place to stage bay crossings of various types. Here you will find the remnant of the 1920s highway bridge, now a fishing pier, and the contemporary 1980s bridge that replaced it. Just south of the highway lies the c. 1908 Dumbarton Cutoff Line railway bridge and the adjacent c. 1930s Hetch Hetchy pipeline that brought Sierra Nevada water to San Francisco. This is the place where high tension electrical lines cross the bay and Cargill has an underwater pipeline here to bring salt brine from the Redwood ponds eastward.

For this session, I was able to drive the van to the south end of the levee and stage from there. The day offered good views of the Dumbarton Cutoff Line bridge, the Hetch Hetchy pipeline, and the ruins of an old landing out in the mudflat. As will be evident in the photographs, I was also quite taken with the patina and textures of the exposed tidal mudflat. This mudflat is broad hereabouts at low tide and hosts a fine gathering of shorebirds.

I am taking these documentary photographs under a Special Use Permit from the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. Kite flying is prohibited over the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge without a Special Use Permit.

Tags:   Fremont California United States Bay Nature SFB KAP kite aerial photography Hidden Ecologies Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge SBSPRP South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project salt ponds South San Francisco Bay Bay Trail N3 Hetch Hetchy Dumbarton Point Dumbarton Cutoff Line swing bridge mudflat

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