Byxbee Park: View Across the Old Marina

Byxbee Park is both perfectly obvious and perfectly bizarre. Obvious, because it’s in the middle of the Baylands, offers spectacular views of the bay in all directions, and provides shelter to so many birds—ducks, geese, mergansers, egrets, gulls, herons, pelicans, to mention only the big and unmistakable ones—that anybody has enough patience for birding here. Perfectly bizarre, because it is full of machinery and mysterious artifacts that have an allure similar to Stonehenge. Clearly these things were built by humans, and at some effort, but to what earthly purpose?

Photo by Marijke Rijsberman, 2006

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