The world is my oyster...

... or the oyster is my world... Banana slugs, like many humans, find oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus) tasty, as well as, perhaps, aesthetically pleasing...

Coyote Hills

This fascinating little Fremont park in the East Bay Regional Park District features a lovely freshwater marsh separated from the Bay by low hills covered in colorful outcroppings of Franciscan complex chert, and a Native American site with shell mounds. The small visitor center includes an expanding exhibition on the local Ohlone people, past and present. The outcroppings are fun with kids, if you keep your eye out for the abundant poison oak, and are fun for lichen lovers of all ages...