1969 The exclosures on Nov. 3 showed somewhat greater amount of vegetation in the true exclosure compared to the false exclosure. Dec. 9 To Alviso marshes with Aunt, Dave & my sons Harris, Phil & Sara Myers. Highest tide of year ever at 11:38 am (+10.0 ft.). Clear day. We got to Alviso about 11:45 and found everything in sight except the yacht harbor completely protected from the tides by dikes. The water in the yacht basin seemed to be 10 feet higher than the salt-marsh marshes east of the railroad tracks. By "walking" about 2 miles north along the RR we found flooded marshes (actually litchikuses with a converted trougher of live salt-pond fish Calliethys) who had 20 or 30 pounds of them alive in stocks of burlap corned trays. He sells them "to the University" and ships them out also for live bait. Says they will survive 2 or 3 days out of water. The marshes were covered by several feet of water; the water level came up to the ballast of the RR tracks, lots of sandpipers, junclets, shorebirds, egrets; even mixed flocks of sparrows + sandpipers along the RR. But no observed small mammals & by turning boards along the RR line found 4 live gophers, 1 dead gopher and 1 live muskrat. I can't imagine where all the presumed marsh inhabitants were. They weren't floating on boards, clinging to emergent vegetation + above poles, nor running along the RR.