Water Walking Tour description
This is the nerdiest of the standard Thinkwalks. Three and a half hours of walking on water. No sinking. This year’s version of the water tour focuses on the history of the Dolores Creek watershed,...
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The San Souci Lake–Pioche Mystery
A report spreads for decades but makes no sense. How intriguing and frustrating. In a newspaper column from (unconfirmed date) April, 1919, Edward Morphy says that the lake in my neighborhood was...
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Laguna Honda watershed
Check out what interesting stuff I’ve sleuthed up for the “trek” I’m leading with Nature in the City on November 14th. The tour will start in Golden Gate Park, because since the late 1800s, the Laguna...
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Tour Recap: The Watersheds of Laguna Honda
Joel sez: Here in Strybing Arboretum is where Golden Gate Park gets much of its water. The pumps are at the arboretum's lowest point, near Lincoln & 13th Ave. You never know what kind of weather...
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Podcast of Watersheds Panel
The recent (November 17) Shaping SF panel discussion at CounterPULSE was recorded and is posted here. If it’s been topped by more recent podcasts, search or scroll to “Watersheds Lost and Found: San...
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Carl Nolte is Secret Love Child of Father Palou?
New rumors about Mission Dolores history have hit the papers! In addition to Hadley’s post at Mission Local, mentioned in my previous entry, which breaks the story with a perfect synopsis of the latest...
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New SF Lake Discovered
As mentioned in my previous post, the access to old articles has increased amazingly. And that access helped me to break this story. Or at least rediscovered… A 25-acre Phelps’ Lake in San Francisco’s...
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A Creek Through the Wiggle & Across Market at Church St.
We tried to put the creek into our mural. Mona sketched it on paper. Seth painted it on the wall—three times before getting it the way he liked it, with the street names of the Wiggle bike route...
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The SF Armory’s (Kink.com’s) “Mission Creek” Claim
Participants in many of my water walking tours have consistently told me I must go see the basement of the Armory. I finally did! The building’s current owner, porn company Kink.com, gives studio tours...
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Mistaken Tunnel
Here’s an image of the lighthouse back when it was more interesting. [only visible in full article]Once again, I get to bask in the glory of being wrong. In my post to everyone on the Thinkwalks...
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Leaping Frog Fungus!
I just learned more about why the project to get rid of the preggie test frogs has been failing. Which frogs? The African clawed frogs that live in Golden Gate Park in the Lily Pond. Apparently they...
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