Monday, March 15, 2010

Coyote

On Saturday I took a ride on the bike trail to Coyote. Coyote is a little town South of San Jose that time forgot. The farms, fields and forgotten orchards act as a wildlife corridor between the Diablo Range and the Santa Cruz Mountains. There were plans to develop it at one point which luckily fell through. The bike trail is pretty underused between South San Jose and Morgan Hill so you can go awhile without seeing another person. At the points when you can't hear or see the freeway and if you block out the electric towers you forget how close you are to the city. I've seen wild pigs, bunnies, a 3 legged fox, bobcats and once about 20 years ago I think I saw a mountain lion.

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Totem pole....
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The Coyote Stage Stop is a biker bar on Monterey Highway. There's not so many of these type of honky tonks around this region any more. I like the classic old sign.
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From Coyote is rode to Hellyer park in San Jose. I was there last weekend with Jacob and we saw a crap load of turtles sunning themselves on the rocks right on the shore of the little goose poop filled lake. However, this weekend was about 10 degrees cooler so I only caught a quick glimpse of one before he ducked back into he water.....
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On the way back I saw this kid Aaron adn his friends skating the Stratacom ditch...
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The sun was going down and the temperature was dropping as I got closer to home
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4 comments:

  1. The weekend before, we walked about a mile and a half down this trail-remember you have to walk BACK, too! In spite of not going far enough to escape the freeway hum, we've recently seen a golden eagle and a peregrine falcon here. Your pictures really capture the feeling of this wilderness surrounded by civilization! I also love the shabby look of the bait shop across from the Coyote Stage Stop.

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  2. A, You have a very good eye for taking snap shots. Is the Coyote bar the same bar Mother and Bob use to go to shoot pool?

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  3. Great photos. Coyote Inn, where Grandma beat everyone at pool.

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  4. i have a story about almost every location that you took a picture at. When i was a kid, i used to live on that trail. i know coyote creek from Anderson dam to Hellyer park so well. Alot of firsts out there. miss it a bunch. It sucks seeing all those houses out there when i drive by these days.

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