On a slip at a house at the southern end of the Oakland / Alameda canal, where it meets San Leandro Bay.  The wind coming off the bay was strong and the water choppy, so it was difficult to manoeuver close enough to get a shot off.  I think these are juvenile Least Terns. 



Last year's models parked off of some slip not too are from the one above.  You'd have to be there to see exactly how decrepit they are.  On the underside of the stern there is a 2' by 2'  piece of wavy plexiglass, that people use for roofs of garden structures... tacked on as some kind of patch. 



Boys will be boys.  There are three catamaran ferries--used, I believe, for Harbor Bay Island to SF-- tied up between the Fruitvale and Park Street Bridges.  Here I am going through one of them.



The canal has seen a lot.  Yards building ships wood and steel.  (photo of sailing ships) This was one of them.  This shipyard was adjacent to, or was probably a part of the Pacific Bridge Co., owned by Kaiser, that built 9 coal fired liberty ships for the USMC between in 42 and 43, and a lot of other non-flashy vessels after that, primarily large floating drydocks -- almost 500 feet long-- that destroyers, submarines and landing craft could could tie up to. 






ConAgra plant at Park Street / 29th Street.