"Galen Licht's flat-bottom boat glides over the gray-green salty waters of Richardson Bay. It's medium tide on Friday morning. Swirling below the surface are the tips of green eelgrass. The aquatic plant once lined the shallows off the bay's shoreline from Sausalito's Spinnaker restaurant north to the Strawberry Peninsula point the second largest bed in San Francisco Bay. Licht, owner of Sea Trek, a Sausalito kayak and paddle board rental business, turned off the engine and surveyed the shimmery vista."
"You come out here and you look around, it's completely open, he said. There's birds. There's eelgrass, seals. Bat rays are beneath us. You get that feeling of being connected to this place so quickly within a three-minute paddle or boat ride. Blades of eelgrass float on the surface of Richardson Bay in Sausalito, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal) Eelgrass grows below the surface of Richardson"
Galen Licht pilots a flat-bottom boat across Richardson Bay near Sausalito, observing eelgrass, birds, seals and bat rays during a medium-tide morning. Eelgrass blades float on the water surface and grow below the shallows, once forming a large bed from the Spinnaker restaurant north to Strawberry Peninsula. Licht operates Sea Trek, a kayak and paddleboard rental business that provides near-instant access to the bay by a short paddle or boat ride. Photographs capture paddleboarders, gulls and the bay's gray-green waters on Aug. 29, 2025.
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