Posts Tagged ‘Stow lake’
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
Here’s something I couldn’t figure. People on Yelp talk about paying $19 and $24 per hour to rent row and paddle boats at Stow Lake, and yet I’ve been informed that the current charges are just $14 and $19, respectfully. (It’s not like the prices are posted all over the place or anything or on a website somewhere.)
Could it be that the prices are supposed to be $14 and $19 under the agreement with the City but yet people were actually being charged $19 and $24? Don’t know. It sure seems odd though, that the Yelpers would make a mistake on how much they paid for the service they’re Yelping about.
Take a look for yourself, if you’d like. It’s hard to determine what all’s going on, given the history.
One might think that how much to charge for services in Golden Gate Park would be specified by contract.
One might think…
Tags: 14, 19, 24, 5, boat house, boathouse, golden gate park, lake, overcharge, Rentals, San Francisco, stow, Stow lake
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
Here’s what you do – you go over to Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park, somewhere near Heron Island, and start up your pig call. Soooo-weeeee! And soon you’ll see pig-nosed turtles, weighing up to 30 pounds.
Like this ugly customer. Click to expand.
Do some people abandon pets at Golden Gate Park?
Yes, some people do.
Tags: Animals, Australasian, australia, boat house, boathouse, Carettochelys insculpta, Fly River Turtle, golden gate park, Hog-nosed Turtle, nose, pig nose, Pig-nose Turtle, piggy, pignose, Pitted-shelled Turtle, Plateless Turtle, San Francisco, Stow lake, tortoise, turtle
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
The Great Blue Herons of Golden Gate Park sometimes like to get up high and ball up. I guess they do that to warm up in the sun after a cold night.
Don’t miss your chance to see these critters this season via San Francisco Nature Education, the non-profit founded by attorney Nancy DeStefanis. They’ll have some programs, like Heron Watch and Birding for Everyone going on tomorrow, May 2, 2009, and on into the future. Check their calendar or thisone on SFGate.com.
Can you see the beak? Click to expand
Tags: 2009, Ardea herodias, ball, birding, Birding for Everyone, birds, cold, golden gate park, great blue heron, heron, Heron Watch, heronwatch, island, lake, lollipop, Nancy DeStefanis, org, San Francisco, San Francisco nature Education, sfnature, stow, Stow lake, warm
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
This female hawk on Strawberry Hill / Island (it was already named before it became an island) in the middle of Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake is feasting on something.
Can you guess what it is?
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See you after the jump.
(more…)
Tags: Circle of Life, eating, female, golden gate park, hawk, island, prey, raptor, red, san francsico, Stow lake, strawberry hill
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Now you can a bunch of research by reading up on tomes of yore but if you want to search for buried treasure in Golden Gate Park, the best place to start must be at Stow Lake near Yelp-rated Strawberry Hill island.
Why? Well, just look at this recent photo. Something must be down there, ‘neath the spotlight:
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Happy hunting!
Tags: buried, diffraction, golden gate park, hunt, island, lake, light, San Francisco, sparkletack, stow, Stow lake, strawberry hill, sun, treasure
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Monday, April 6th, 2009
This decently-sized fish just couldn’t get enough wonderful Rainbow Bread (can you see a slice getting devored on the left?) the other day at Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. Keep a look out for these critters when you rent a boat at Stow, just a stone’s throw away from the de Young Museum and the California Academy of Sciences.
Num num:
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Tags: bass, boat, bread, california, eye, fish, golden gate park, hungry, paddleboat, rent, rental, row, rowboat, san francsico, slice, Stow lake, white
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
The Great Blue Herons of Golden Gate Park need to mash up their crayfish treats before eating, so sometimes you’ll get to hear a wet splat and then see the guts fly.
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KERSPLATT!
A close up view from an earlier day:
Look out, little crayfish…
Tags: california, crawdads, crawfish, Crayfish, crustacean, freshwater, golden gate park, great blue heron, heron, mudbug, San Francisco, small lobsters, Stow lake, yabbies, yabby
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
Here are your clues about whether your turtle is a red-eared slider – does it slide off of rocks into the water when you get too close and does it have red where you’d expect it to have ears, as shown? Well then, you’ve got yourself an exotic, invasive animule that doesn’t belong in Golden Gate Park.
The best place to see these critters is Golden Gate Park – here’s one from Stow Lake.
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Bad turtle! That’s a bad turtle, go away!
Tags: Emydidae, exotic, Family, golden gate park, invasive, Red-Eared, San Francisco, semi-aquatic, Slider, species, Stow lake, Trachemys scripta elegansm, turtle
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
The gigantic Great Blue Herons high atop Stow Lake in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park usually want to stick around their one-hundred pound nests, so sometimes this is how they go to the loo.
Most of it makes it out of the nest, anyway.
Click to expand, go ahead, do it.
Yet another “pretty picture,” per ”Don’t Call Him Crazy” Rob Anderson.
Tags: defecate, foul, fowl, golden gate park, great blue heron, poo, San Francisco, Stow lake, white
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Just as the Cliff Swallows come back to Capistrano every March (or so they say), the Great Blue Herons of San Francisco return to nest on a small island on Stow Lake every January.
See what it looks like via filmmaker Rick Bacigalupi of BaciPix, who presents Nancy DeStefanis, The Heron Lady. Check out SFNature.org for the latest, including new tours of Heron’s Head Park (aka Pier 98) in southeast San Francisco.
This fellow is a regular at the nests in the tops of of the Monterey Cypress of Stow Lake. He’s ready to fight and love all over again this year.
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Welcome back, Ardea herodias
Tags: 2009, Ardea herodias, BaciPix, golden gate park, great blue heron, heron, Nancy DeStefanis, org, Rick Bacigalupi, San Francisco, San Francisco nature Education, sfnature, Stow lake
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