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Yes, that's Frank Quan's shrimping boat tied up to his pier on yet another glorious and rather orangey morning at China Camp.
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Technicolor skies, but they didn't need much Photoshop.
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100 years ago the China Camp area would have been busy with boats setting nets and pulling in a bounty of Bay Shrimp. Today the last resident of China Camp, Frank Quan, continues the tradition of setting his net--and hoping for the best. Salt-intrusion into San Pablo Bay has diminished the catch to a fraction.
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And this is where Frank Quan lives--directly on the shore of San Pablo Bay. I don't know Frank all that well, but we exchange hellos when I see him puttering-about. We are both bachelors so I think we have a certain unspoken camaraderie.
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And this is the handsome young man of China Camp himself, Frank Quan, snapped in November of 2009. And yes, except for a tour of duty in the Navy during WW2, Frank has lived and fished at China Camp his entire life.
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