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King Tide Walk at Hayward Regional Shoreline , 2/10/24 by Ronald Horii
On 2/10/24, there was a guided walk at Hayward Regional Shoreline, led by an East Bay Regional Parks naturalist. This is the description of the event: "Presented by East Bay Regional Park District:
What are King Tides? How do they affect plants and animals, and what can we learn from them? Find out the answers to these questions and participate in the community science King Tides Project on this easy walk along the San Francisco Bay shore. Be prepared for muddy shoes!" The King Tides are the highest tides of the year. They occur when the moon and the sun are lined up, and they are both closest to the earth, which happens in the winter. The highest King Tide was actually the day before on 2/9, but it was still very high on 2/10. A little after noon, it would be over 8 feet along the Hayward Shoreline. The King Tides give a preview of what normal or even low tides could be like in the presence of sea level rise from global climate change. After an explanation of how King Tides work, we walked down to the shoreline. Below are pictures from the walk. Hayward Regional Shoreline covers 1841 acres. It opened in 1980. It has 5 miles of trails, mostly gravel-covered and along the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Here are more useful links:
California King Tides Project by the California Coastal Commission: https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/, https://www.facebook.com/californiakingtides.
Information and maps of Hayward Regional Shoreline:
https://www.ebparks.org/parks/hayward. Here's the park map: https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/HaywardShoreline-2023-web.pdf.
Hayward Marsh Restoration Project:
https://www.ebparks.org/projects/restore-hayward-marsh-project. This is the plan to adapt the Hayward Shoreline to sea level rise:
https://www.hayward-ca.gov/sites/default/files/210510_Hayward%20Shoreline%20Adapatation%20Master%20Plan_Document_Pages.pdf.
Here's my old 1999 webpage on the Bay Trail in Hayward Regional Shoreline:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110519002842/http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/baytrail/vtour/map4/access/BTHayward/BTHayward.htm. Here's a newer webpage on the Hayward Shoreline during a King Tide:
"King Tide and Low Tide at the Hayward Regional Shoreline, 1/25/14 and 1/29/14":
https://www.rhorii.com/Hayward/Tides.html. After this walk, I took a bike ride along the Bay Trail in the north part of the shoreline: http://tinyurl.com/4p347z5x. The trail along the shoreline is part of the San Francisco Bay Trail. https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/regional-trails-parks/san-francisco-bay-trail. Here's a map of the section of the Bay Trail from Newark to San Leandro: https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/regional-trails-parks/san-francisco-bay-trail/map-numbers/map-8-newark-san-leandro.
On 2/10/24, there was a guided walk at Hayward Regional Shoreline, led by an East Bay Regional Parks naturalist. This is the description of the event: "Presented by East Bay Regional Park District:
What are King Tides? How do they affect plants and animals, and what can we learn from them? Find out the answers to these questions and participate in the community science King Tides Project on this easy walk along the San Francisco Bay shore. Be prepared for muddy shoes!" The King Tides are the highest tides of the year. They occur when the moon and the sun are lined up, and they are both closest to the earth, which happens in the winter. The highest King Tide was actually the day before on 2/9, but it was still very high on 2/10. A little after noon, it would be over 8 feet along the Hayward Shoreline. The King Tides give a preview of what normal or even low tides could be like in the presence of sea level rise from global climate change. After an explanation of how King Tides work, we walked down to the shoreline. Below are pictures from the walk. Hayward Regional Shoreline covers 1841 acres. It opened in 1980. It has 5 miles of trails, mostly gravel-covered and along the shores of San Francisco Bay.
Here are more useful links:
California King Tides Project by the California Coastal Commission: https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/, https://www.facebook.com/californiakingtides.
Information and maps of Hayward Regional Shoreline:
https://www.ebparks.org/parks/hayward. Here's the park map: https://www.ebparks.org/sites/default/files/HaywardShoreline-2023-web.pdf.
Hayward Marsh Restoration Project:
https://www.ebparks.org/projects/restore-hayward-marsh-project. This is the plan to adapt the Hayward Shoreline to sea level rise:
https://www.hayward-ca.gov/sites/default/files/210510_Hayward%20Shoreline%20Adapatation%20Master%20Plan_Document_Pages.pdf.
Here's my old 1999 webpage on the Bay Trail in Hayward Regional Shoreline:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110519002842/http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/baytrail/vtour/map4/access/BTHayward/BTHayward.htm. Here's a newer webpage on the Hayward Shoreline during a King Tide:
"King Tide and Low Tide at the Hayward Regional Shoreline, 1/25/14 and 1/29/14":
https://www.rhorii.com/Hayward/Tides.html. After this walk, I took a bike ride along the Bay Trail in the north part of the shoreline: http://tinyurl.com/4p347z5x. The trail along the shoreline is part of the San Francisco Bay Trail. https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/regional-trails-parks/san-francisco-bay-trail. Here's a map of the section of the Bay Trail from Newark to San Leandro: https://mtc.ca.gov/operations/regional-trails-parks/san-francisco-bay-trail/map-numbers/map-8-newark-san-leandro.
