Comments on: Radio Beach

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:44:06 +0000

You take the West Grand Ave. exit off I-80 and take an immediate right, then follow the road to the end.

By: Oakland Daily Photo

Oakland Daily Photo — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:26:52 +0000

How does one get to the beach?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:56:08 +0000

The shacks are gone, but there are still pilings and stuff along the edge of the marsh. The sailing folks of Berkeley/Emeryville like to hold picnics out on a sandbar in the mudflats during especially low tides.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:09:03 +0000

I just remembered, we bird watchers used to call the marsh nearby the “bay bridge toll plaza marsh” and the nearby mud flats towards emeryvile “The Crescent”. Was a good place to view the fairly rare Least Tern that used to nest there and over at the Alameda Naval Station (they’re still around, saw some at the Berkeley Marina this past summer). Here’s a shot I took not at Radio Beach proper but just east of there:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rich8155/2977956889/

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:05:14 +0000

I used to bird watch out here in the late 1970′s-early 1980′s when there was still a broadcast station and a number of small shacks on the pier that went in a semi-circle into the emeryville flats. Neat little out of the way place. I sometimes still go nearby to do some marsh photography. It’s like a world away from the heavy I-80 traffic and the backed up bay bridge. I hope with the new bridge the access is not restricted, nor opened up to much either.