Originally I planned to do a scouting in Coyote Hill Regional Park, but the $5 entrance fee for my car seemed a bit too much so I decided to visit Don Edward Wildlife Refuge instead. This Refuge is famous for bird watching; you can often see people on trail with binoculars. Not a birdy myself, the deserted cabin looks more interesting to my eyes.
First look at the marsh. Highway 84 is barely visible in the background.
Deserted pipes. You can see a heron in the marsh. Highway 84 is about 100 feet away and sounds very noisy.
Hard to believe there used to be many people (including the Ohlone Indians) living in the marsh and they could support themselves by fishing and hunting. This old sign described the fishes you could find in the SF Bay. Now you can still go fishing here but you can't eat the fish you catch due to pollution.
Fisherman's cabin (deserted).
The coast around the marsh looks more like a garbage dump.
There were still people living here until 1960s. Now their deserted house was half sunken in mud.
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