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Albany Waterfront Trail



San Francisco Bay, photo by Harold Davis.

This photo is a view of the San Francisco Bay from the Albany Waterfront Trail.

What a weird place the Albany Waterfront Trail is! About a ten minute drive from here, it is on a spit of land that extends into the Bay. Until 1984, it was the municipal dump for the city of Albany, California - once again proving that we don’t tend to understand the wonderful things around us. (Why a dump in this wonderful Bay of all places?)

Today, this a park with left-over detritus from the dumping years, “shrines” made by various artists, and glorious views.

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2 Responses to “Albany Waterfront Trail”

  1. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Moon and Tidal Flats Says:
    December 26th, 2006 at 2:42 pm

    […] initial urge to fill-in and build, where they were marginal land used for dumping like the Albany waterfront, where they survived long enough to be saved as park. These oozy, stinky, beautiful […]

  2. Photoblog 2.0: » Photoblog 2.0 Archive: » Cloud Catcher Says:
    August 9th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    […] loud Catcher, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger. We hadn’t been to the Albany Waterfront Trail for a while, so Julian and I went exploring. This area was a landfill and dump […]

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