Oyster Point Bay Trail Walk

Getting exercise during the pandemic has been tricky. Walking around my Civic Center neighborhood is an exercise in dodging despair, madness and maskless characters. Meanwhile, city nature spots tend to be overrun with family groups, unleashed dogs, fitness nuts, and bicyclists creating their own right of way.

So we have started driving to the suburbs, looking for less popular spots to take a good walk.

The ongoing project that is the Bay Trail (click here) offers a lovely walking and sightseeing path around a cove on the San Mateo County side of San Francisco Bay.

The scenery is gorgeous but it is drying out fast.

The newly apocalyptic California fire season is upon us, another thing to be conscious of besides resisting a fascist takeover over of the U.S. government and trying to stay safe in a pandemic.

There are lots of places for picnics, either impromptu on a blanket bayside...

...or on picnic tables, some of which have grills nearby.

There were very few people and the vast majority of them were wearing masks when passing strangers and keeping their dogs leashed while they were at it.

The four-mile trail extends south from the Oyster Point Marina in South San Francisco to just north of the San Francisco Airport. Check it out now before this post ruins it.