walking along
Salmon
I counted more than 100 vessels, mostly privateers in smallish open boats, fishing the run. Taken from Bodega Head, a granite outcrop connected underground / underwater with Pt. Reyes, Montaro Mountain, and Point Lobos, all a single member of the southern Sierra range, moved north along the San Andreas fault this past few million years. The solidity of this granite is responsible for Bodega Bay and harbor.
The bay, harbor and surrounding land was occupied by Russians (furthest southern settlement) on the California coast until the 1840's to grow food and have a large safe port for their sea otter taking endeavors all along the west coast. General Vallejo's fort in Petaluma not that far away (50 miles as the crow flies?) was established in part to prevent further expansion into territory claimed by Spain. The Russians left mostly because they almost completely exterminated the sea otter, whose pelts were shipped primarily to China.
Salmon
I counted more than 100 vessels, mostly privateers in smallish open boats, fishing the run. Taken from Bodega Head, a granite outcrop connected underground / underwater with Pt. Reyes, Montaro Mountain, and Point Lobos, all a single member of the southern Sierra range, moved north along the San Andreas fault this past few million years. The solidity of this granite is responsible for Bodega Bay and harbor.
The bay, harbor and surrounding land was occupied by Russians (furthest southern settlement) on the California coast until the 1840's to grow food and have a large safe port for their sea otter taking endeavors all along the west coast. General Vallejo's fort in Petaluma not that far away (50 miles as the crow flies?) was established in part to prevent further expansion into territory claimed by Spain. The Russians left mostly because they almost completely exterminated the sea otter, whose pelts were shipped primarily to China.