Estuary men

We made it! Better to be lucky than smart. Yesterday, we exceeded our most optimistic projections and logged 33 miles. Rode the ebb tide and the winds were kind.
​TodAy we got to experience rowing through one of the states best windsurfing areas. True suffering was had but we made it to take out by mid morning. At several points this morning we would have moved faster by getting off the boat and crawling on our bellies on shore. There is much to process about this experience. For now, we just enjoy.



The last time California faced real collapse of aquatic ecosystems was before the passage of the state and federal clean water acts in the 1970s, which eliminated or greatly reduced the dumping of huge volumes of toxic material into the estuary. The present Delta, as measured by total fish populations, species diversity, navigability, migratory waterfowl abundance, and other measures, even water quality, is a ‘healthy’ ecosystem in many ways.

​Peter Moyle, UC Davis fisheries
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