April 23rd - California Delta

From Turlock we have driven North and West to a stretch of countryside between Central Valley, Napa Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, know as The Delta. It is the area where all the rivers that flow from the Sierra Nevada all come together to escape to the sea. It is a large area of marshes, lakes and waterways, very pleasant. It also has one of the largest windfarms I have ever seen, several hundred 80 metre turbines have been erected on the Montezuma Hills of the Delta region. We drove on through the Delta region to Valleja, a city on the north shore of the Bay Area, where we stopped to take in the view across the Bay, before setting up for the night in the local fairground.