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Farm Visit and Views From the Berkeley Hills

·Berkeley, California·#bay area#spring#landscape#kids#east-bay#petting-zoo
Three children observe an enclosure through metal bars, with one child gripping the bars and another wearing a purple hat.

Farm morning first. The kids planted themselves at the pens and stayed there — fingers through the wire at the rabbit hutches, and a long staring contest with a black sheep pushing its head between the blue rails of the gate. The sheep won, mostly. Two piglets, one pink and one black with a pink band around its middle, kept circling each other in the dirt and never stood still.

A keeper came out to feed the geese while we were there, and the whole flock crowded the water troughs with a crowd of kids and parents packed in around the fence to watch. One goose stood up and beat its wings at everybody, which got the biggest reaction of the day.

Afterward we drove up into the Berkeley hills and stopped for the view. Hazy, but you could still pick out the Bay Bridge crossing to San Francisco, the skyline behind it, the marina down at the water's edge. Berkeley spread out flat below us all the way to the bay.

Two children stand next to a metal fence with hay visible; one wears a purple hat and holds a bar.A child with reddish hair looks at a black sheep through blue metal bars.A child with reddish hair looks at a black sheep through blue fence bars.Two piglets, one black and white, one pink with spots, stand on light brown ground near a wooden structure.Adults and children observe geese, one with wings spread, in a farm enclosure with a pink building and wooden deck.An aerial view of a sprawling city bordering a bay with a bridge, leading to a distant city skyline and hazy mountains.Aerial view of San Francisco Bay with the Bay Bridge, distinct city skylines, and surrounding urban areas.Aerial view of a city featuring residential areas, a bay, a long bridge, and a distant skyline with hills.

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