{"id":1010,"date":"2007-02-17T22:52:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T03:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2007-02-17T22:52:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-18T03:52:16","slug":"scenes-from-coyote-hills-regional-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/02\/17\/scenes-from-coyote-hills-regional-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from Coyote Hills Regional Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coyote Hills Regional Park is along the San Francisco Bay&#8217;s Fremont shoreline. The hills are more like humps and half the trails are paved.  A nice place for an easy stroll, and an excellent place to snap off a few frames if the skies and the waters cooperate.<\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/393728822\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/185\/393728822_e3abba2732.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"San Francisco Bay\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe water&#8217;s not this blue, but if the sun&#8217;s just right and the sky&#8217;s clear enough, the sky reflecting on the water&#8217;s surface might give otherwise brown, muddy water a blue sheen.<\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/393729942\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/186\/393729942_606f76a880.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Cracked mud at water's edge\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<P>Cracked mud  tends to be photogenic. I considered converting this one to black and white but liked it better in color.<\/p>\n<p><P><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/393731121\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/393731121_0c467b85ee.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Nice rocks\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<P>The  hills have a small number of colorful rock formations.<\/p>\n<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/393732112\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/166\/393732112_5b5bd94971.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Old guy with radio-controlled glider\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Got to the top of  one  hill, had a snack for lunch and noticed this guy with the wing strapped across his back. Turns out he had a radio-controlled glider.<\/p>\n<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/393732191\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/174\/393732191_d89e5036c4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Radio-controlled glider in flight.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P> Here&#8217;s the glider with the western shore of the bay in the background.<\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/393732418\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/160\/393732418_ee4a4aadda.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"500\" alt=\"First poppy of the season\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>First poppy posting of the season. I picked up one of those Gorillapods last month and this is the first time I&#8217;ve taken it out on the trail. Does fine work with the macro setting on my digital camera, if I do say so.<br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/393732780\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/141\/393732780_a03768a735.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" alt=\"The marsh below one of the hills\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<P>The park includes the marsh off in the distance &#8212; it has boardwalks through it so you can check out the waterfowl. I never have any luck getting pictures of birds so I decided not to wander down there this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coyote Hills Regional Park is along the San Francisco Bay&#8217;s Fremont shoreline. The hills are more like humps and half the trails are paved. A nice place for an easy stroll, and an excellent place to snap off a few&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/02\/17\/scenes-from-coyote-hills-regional-park\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}