In early November of '07 I took my dogs Zoe and Hunter to their favorite dog park in San Francisco. It's a great area just south of Ocean beach in an old fort called Funston. There's a top area where you can walk your dogs and hike around a bit on the sandy cliffs or hang glide. Then there's a path that leads down to the beach. This is a picture of Zoe down on the black sand stained from 56,000 gallons of oil spilling into the San Francisco bay.
This picture was taken a few months to a year after the spill, we assumed it would be cleaned up by then, not even close. I went back yesterday to jog on the beach and it's still a mess two and a half years later. This seems relevant today since the spill in the Gulf is leaking more than 4 times the San Francisco spill every single day.
Beauty and the Beast
A view from the cliffs of cypress and ice plants which have been blooming for weeks
The paraglider wasn't the only one that enjoyed the wind, this crow floated right towards me
And here's the beach, yesterday 900 some days since the spill.
Lets see where will I put my towel down?
Here's a good spot
When this first happened more than 50 beaches were closed, 200 miles of coastline oiled. Thousands of birds died and I saw more than a few of them the first time I went out, along with a seal. A true environmental disaster. While opening offshore drilling was good politics it's certainly looking like a mistake for the creatures of the Gulf and areas like it for years to come. President Obama needs to reconsider his recent decision and I think he will. He should take another page from Keynes who said, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"