08.30.09
No Gates !
August was consumed with worry about the 2 Gates “Fish Protection” project we’d just found out about. It seemed impossible that we could be isolated (from the boating perspective) in Discovery Bay and unable to get reliably to other parts of the Delta. I feared spending a weekend at Mildred Island and the return route being blocked by a broken Bacon Island Bridge (an occurrence several times a year) and instead of being able to take the only alternate route via Old River, having a gate there blocking our return home for hours and hours. Plus the more I found out about how these gates would operate, the more worried I became about the safety of getting our boat through it. There would be strong currents, large obstacles.
And of course, the gates have little to do with protecting fish – except to try to get a court order lifted so the state can pump even more water out of the Delta to Southern California and continue to destroy the fish, wildlife, and water quality in the Delta.
We did have time though for some fun in August – back packing to Island Lake in the Sierras and time with Serenity.
