![[Photo: Ditch Gate]](psho_ditch_gate_tall.jpg)
The Pacific Shores office park is surrounded by tidal flats and salt ponds. It has no restaurants, no bookstores. It does have some lovely green ditches.
In his book Salt: A World History, Mark Kurlansky writes
...The southern end of San Francisco Bay is an insalubrious marshland with ideal conditions for saltmaking. Not only does it have more sun and less rainfall than San Francisco and the north bay, but it has wind to help with evaporation.
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