Sitting right on the San Andreas fault where water seaps out of the fractures and feeds an oasis in the middle of a barren landscape. Ponds with fish and crawfish, Californian palms and rushes all make this a wonderland. The trail travels through the undergrowth on a boardwalk with the North American tectonic plate to the east and the Asia-Pacific plate to the west. The fault is separating about an inch a year and is much less dynamic than the fault further north in the SF area which means major earthquakes every 300 years as opposed to one hundred years!
