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photo by Donald Kinney
Oh, we've been here before. In fact, I end up at China Camp all the time -- busy cities are just over the hill, but between my ears it is indeed a million miles away.
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Except for the dock and some buildings obscured by trees this is pretty much the whole of China Camp Village, however the shoreline and bluffs extend for a total of seven miles.
Normally I zoom-in on my subjects, but with the magic of Photoshop I stitched three photos together for a panorama (above).
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Lucky me, because on Thursday I got to chat with Frank Quan -- normally we're both men of few words -- but we discussed the finer points of the chilly morning.
Frank, who is in his mid-80's, was in the process of firing-up his chain-saw to work on a huge pile of eucalyptus -- a tree fell nearby in the last storm.
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A couple of Frank's old boats. The "shrimper" in the background -- the "Sea-Breeze" -- isn't going anywhere soon.
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Frank's dock. It's the end of generations of shrimp fishing at China Camp. Populations of Bay Shrimp have diminished due to increasing salinity -- fresh water from the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers has largely been diverted for agricultural use in the Central Valley.
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