Fri-Sunday, Feb. 21-23 Another one of our exciting trips this year will be a weekend tour of San Benito County to experience its many historic and wildlife treasures. This very rural area east of Monterey has a wonderful variety of … Continue reading
Sat. March 7, 9am-12pm Home to thousands of migratory birds over the winter, this section of the Palo Alto marshes and shoreline has some of the greatest concentrations of wildfowl, shorebirds, raptors and waders of any in the Bay Area. … Continue reading
Sat. March 14, 10am-4pm The San Mateo coastline, with its miles of rocky headlands and deep blue ocean, small coves, inlets and sandy beaches, is one of the wonders of the Bay Area. The whole coastline from Pacifica to Santa … Continue reading
Thurs-Sunday, March 19-22 Every year at the great Klamath National Wildlife Refuge on the California-Oregon border, hundreds of thousands of migrating wildfowl, shorebirds and raptors pass through or spend the winter. This country is very wild, open and rugged, with … Continue reading
Sat. April 18, 9am-12am Tucked away east of Fremont, in south-east Alameda County, is Sunol Regional Park, perhaps the most beautiful and wild of Alameda’s nature preserves. Covered in oak woodlands, surrounded by high crags and bisected by Alameda Creek, … Continue reading
Sat. April 25, 10am-4pm Journeying along Mines Road is a trip through wild and rugged country into the vanished past of old Alameda County. We meet and begin in Livermore at the Concannon Winery at 10am and drive through 30 … Continue reading
Sat. May 9, 10am-1pm At nearly 4,000 feet, Mt. Diablo sits in solitary splendor high above Contra Costa county, monarch of all it surveys. So high much of northern California can be seen from its summit, as well as, on … Continue reading
Fri-Sunday, May 15-17 Mendocino County, three hours north of the Bay Area, is renowned for its rugged seacoast, rural charm and deep wild forests. Great headlands are pounded by enormous Pacific breakers, and unspoiled rivers like the Navarro and Albion … Continue reading
Sat. May 23 10am-4pm This enormous state wildlife preserve (over 10,000 acres) near Fairfield is renowned for a great variety of birds and wildlife, with grasslands, marshes and wetlands that stretch for miles to the distant hills. To the south, … Continue reading
Fri-Sunday, June 5-7 Historic Strawberry Lodge (from 1858) is located two hours east of Sacramento, on Route 50 at Kyburz village, portal to the Sierras. It’s located in the Crystal Basin Recreation Area and is part of the 85,000 acre … Continue reading