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J. Rodgers-1939
150
Itinerary, etc.
May 13
Arroyo Macks. 750 ft, 6t mi SE Livermore
Alameda Co, Calif
8 feet above the present river bed. There
is the remains of another terrace about
18 feet above that. The whole area is
covered with short dry grass. These
are scattered blue sage especially
on the upper terrace and along its
slope; some valley sage and near
the stream bed and sycamores
along it. About 11:20 some big
dark clouds moved down from the
southeast, there were a few rolls of
thunder and rain more or less
continuously and very hard for
a little over an hour. The clouds
were just over Arroyo Macks; as they
drifted out toward the Livermore Valley,
they melted. About 15 minutes after
the rain stopped, we saw Leelpone
and about 1 hour after it stopped
the ground was nearly dry and at
that time we caught a large whiptail
in the creek bed. Miller saw a skink
and caught only the end of its tail as
it went into a hole at the base of a
large leaning valley oak. There were no
mostly loose boulders
rocks barred by but many within 150 feet
no autotrope.