Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Wandering Wednesday- Coyote Hills

 As our traditional New Year's Day hike was not happening due to the weather and other scheduling issues, we put it off just one day and got to go to Fremont's great park, Coyote Hills on the southeast edge of the San Francisco Bay. We managed to get there in between rainstorms, so that was very good.

We (DH and I) took an almost four mile hike with DS (seen above with Bella, DD's dog), DD, her boyfriend. Bella has her Christmas sweatshirt on.We had just started walking when DS, said "wow, what, oh no!" turned out he almost had stepped on this wriggler. A park worker happened to drive up in his electric work truck and he ID'd it for us as a Tiger Centipede

Also saw a big flock of wild turkeys. They look a little different from the ones we have in our neighborhood.

Up the hill we went. The Bay was such a different color than last time when it was so bright we could barely look at it from the sun glare.

The water was filled with floating American Coots.
A large white bird way up on the hill really was eye catching, either a heron or a crane.
It got tough going up Red Hill as it's pretty steep (500' elevation gain), but we were happy at the top.
A nice log under the trees to sit on with a heck of a view.
We could see back towards home that it was likely raining there.
The red rocks of Red Hill with the Bay in the background.
We were so happy to make it outside together, and to miss getting rained on.



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