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Cargill Salt Ponds at Eden Landing, Hayward

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Cargill Salt Ponds at Eden Landing, Hayward

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Pat taking care of the flowers at the bayside canning company in Alviso. Pat is care taker, historian, and resident of this condemmed building with a long history back to the haydays in the 1800's when Guadalupe creek was the thriving port for Santa Clara.

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A fast passing comutter train in the evening.

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The setting sliver of a moon. Every night when the sun sets large flocks of birds migrate from the salt ponds on the east side of the tracks, to the salt ponds on the west side of the tracks.

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The art work on the walls of the condemned bayside canning company was done by a college student about ten years ago in an effort to deter vandals and their graffiti.

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Drawbridge (formerly, Saline City) is a ghost town with an abandoned railroad station located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay on Station Island.

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Formerly used as a hunting village, the town of Drawbridge has been a ghost town since 1979 and is slowly sinking into the marshlands.

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Drawbridge was created by the narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad on Station Island in 1876 and consisted of one small cabin for the operator of the railroad's two drawbridges crossing Mud Creek Slough and Coyote Creek Slough to connect Newark with Alviso and San Jose. At one time 10 passenger trains stopped there per day, five going north and five going south. The drawbridges were removed long ago. The only path leading into Drawbridge is the Union Pacific Railroad track.

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In the 1880s, on weekends nearly 1,000 visitors flocked to the town. By the 1920s, although the town had no roads, it did have 90 buildings, and was divided into two neighborhoods: the predominantly Roman Catholic South Drawbridge, and the predominantly Protestant North Drawbridge.

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After the turn bridge drawbridges were removed and most of the residents had left, the San Jose Mercury News for years incorrectly reported that the town was a ghost town and that the residents left valuables behind. As a result, the people still living there had their homes vandalized. The town's last resident is said to have left in 1979, and Drawbridge is considered to be the San Francisco Bay Area's only ghost town.

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Drawbridge is now part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and is no longer open to the public due to restoration efforts, though it can still briefly be viewed from Altamont Commuter Express, Capitol Corridor, and Coast Starlight trains.

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It is so easy to “correct” digital photos, which gives way to enhancing them, which is all part of the process of photography that transitions from recording light to printing art. None the less, in respect for the beauty of these marshlands, I will admit that NONE of these photos are modified. This set of photos is simply recordings of these mud flats where sunsets are truly this color.

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