San Francisco Bay
English: The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary that drains water from approximately forty percent of California. Water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, and from the Sierra Nevada mountains passes through the Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Specifically, both rivers flow into Suisun Bay, which flows through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects at its south end to San Francisco Bay. However, the entire group of interconnected bays is often called the San Francisco Bay.
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Native peoples (likely the Ohlone), hunting at the Bay -
Ohlone fishing on the Bay -
1781 map of the Bay -
Painting by Albert Bierstadt (1871-1873) -
1873 map of the Bay -
Satellite image of the Bay -
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Topographic map -
Salt ponds -
Salt ponds -
Salt marsh and Highway 92 -
Fishing on the Bay, 1899 -
Fishing on the Bay, 1891 -
Seal Rocks and Point Bonita Lighthouse -
Coyote Hills salt marshes -
Port, Redwood City -
Needles, Marin County, from the Golden Gate Bridge -
Belvedere, Marin County -
Bay Model, Army Corps of Engineers -
Alcatraz, and the Golden Gate, ca 1900 -
Rock Quarry, Marin County -
Golden Gate Bridge, with Angel Island in background -
Old, and new, Dumbarton Bridges -
Dumbarton Bridge -
San Mateo-Hayward Bridge -
San Mateo-Hayward Bridge -
Western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, from Yerba Buena Island -
Eastern span, showing damage from the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989 -
Eastern span replacement construction -
The two bridges -
Commuter train crossing the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge -
Oakland Estuary -
Richardson Bay -
Richardson Bay from Ring Mountain -
San Francisco Bay Trail -
Phoenix Fireboat -
Container ship -
Dredge -
Carquinez Strait -
South Vallejo (Carlton Watkins, ca 1870) -
Suisun Bay, with Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet -
Detail, Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet -
Benicia-Martinez Bridge -
Suisun Marsh -
Hamilton Air Force Base, Marin County -
Baylands Nature Preserve -
Sunset, Richmond, at San Pablo Bay
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