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The sandbar at the mouth of Tomales Bay is notoriously dangerous, with a long history of small-boat accidents. [7] Tomales Bay oysters. Oyster farming is a major industry on the bay. The two largest producers are Hog Island Oyster Company and Tomales Bay Oyster Company, both of which retail oysters to the public and have picnic grounds on the ...
Hog Island is an island roughly 2 acres (0.8 ha) in size located approximately 5 mi (8 km) south of the entrance to Tomales Bay in the West Marin area of Marin County, California. While waters to its west are deep enough for small ships to enter Tomales Bay, at low tide the shallows to the east may be wadeable to the eastern shore of the bay.
Lagunitas Creek is a 24-mile-long (39 km) [2] northward-flowing stream in Marin County, California.It is critically important to the largest spawning runs of endangered coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Central California Coast Coho salmon Evolutionary Significant Unit (CCC ESU).
Keys Creek heads at 290 feet (88 m) and flows 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west through the town of Tomales below which it joins Walker Creek. [2] Below Keys Creek, Walker Creek continues southward along the Highway 1 to enter Tomales Bay just east of Preston Point.
Watercourses which feed into Tomales Bay, numbered clockwise from Sand Point to Tomales Point: Walker Creek (255208) Keys Creek (254852) Chileno Creek (254740) Frink Canyon (223952) Verde Canyon (237053) Salmon Creek (232280) Arroyo Sausal (254577) Millerton Gulch (228754) Grand Canyon (224386) Tomasini Canyon (236446) Lagunitas Creek (255208)
Tomales is located above Keys Creek, about 3 mi (5 km) northeast of Tomales Bay. The nearest city is Petaluma, 16 miles (26 km) to the east by road, and the nearest large city is San Francisco, about 75 minutes (58 miles (93 km)) to the south. [7] The CDP has a total area of 0.33 square miles (0.85 km 2), all of it land. [5]
It is located on the northeast shore of Tomales Bay 6 mi (9.7 km) south of Tomales, [5] at an elevation of 25 ft (7.6 m). [4] Marshall is located on the east shore of Tomales Bay. It has a population that is unknown. [6] It is located approximately 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Bodega Bay, on State Route 1. Its ZIP code is 94940.
Yellowtail rockfish over boot sponges in the Greater Farallones National Marine Sacntuary.. The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (formerly Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary) protects the wildlife, habitats, and cultural resources of one of the most diverse and bountiful marine environments in the world, an area of 3,295 square miles off the northern and central ...