We drove north from Jalama Beach to the San Francisco Bay Area, where two families of our children and grandchildren reside. My son Ethan and wife Flo live in Albany, and my step-daughter Laina and family (The Levys) live in Alameda.

Ethan and I took a walk on the Albany Bulb, which is a peninsula created out of concrete from dismantled highways.

Ethan

The San Francisco skyline from the Albany Bulb

Wild sunflower (?) seedheads

Bushtit in fennel

Sculpture at the far end of the Albany Bulb

At the Berkeley Marina.

Sport fishing boat returns to the Berkeley Marina. They were out for salmon. The San Francisco skyline is seen in the background.

Sailboard launch area, with the Port of Oakland seen in the distance, to the south

California towhee

Green heron

Snowy egret

This and below video: Yappy Hour at Terrace Park, Albany. Ethan, Jenny and Vinny (brown dog)

Peruvian trumpets, Albany

Lotus, UC-Berkeley Botanical Garden

The Levy family lives close to a great birding walk along a section of shoreline of San Francisco Bay.

Avocet

Greater yellowlegs

Greater yellowlegs

At the end of our week’s stay, we attended a Hula dance performance that included Laina and her daughter Kara. Here is a number  with Laina.

We then started home, going by way of Sonora Pass and then down Hwy 395, along the eastern slopes of the Sierras, which will be shown in Part #3. Links to Parts #1 and #2 are found at both the top and bottom of this post