We went on a bike ride on the Bay Trail this weekend. We biked out to the end of the Emeryville pier, where we saw chunks of the gloppy oil floating around in the water. Then, we biked north and explored the "park" on the Albany bulb, and along with a unique concrete graffitied bunker, we saw lots of evidence of the recent oil spill in the bay area. The spill was of bunker fuel - a solid, tarry, goopy mess. Bryce and Sarah also saw a dead bird, adding to the 84 reported dead so far. It's so sad to see how far the oil has reached.
Our photo album has more photos.
At 58,000 gallons, this is a pretty small spill (the Valdez spilled 11 MILLION gallons), but with the paltry reaction right after the crash, the oil wasn't contained is already reaching most points within the bay and even out along the coast. What's even sadder is that CNN isn't even reporting that the area that we explored was affected (see
this map). Sarah said that the coast guard isn't cleaning up the Berkeley Marina at all, because they haven't had orders to clean it up. It's as if they don't want admit that the oil spill has reached the east side of the bay...
