It is going to be tough so that you could walk the length of this valley in one evening time. It stretches almost about 17 miles from a place where the Sonoma Creek begins in a narrow canyon of the Mayacamas Mountains and follows that creek to the San Pablo Bay—a shallow tidal estuary that forms an extension of the San Francisco Bay.
When you occur to had been to set out on a walk of the length of this valley this evening, you might understand why the principle people who lived proper right here known as this place Sonoma—which means “many moons” or “valley of the moon.” It is a narrow valley—only some miles all through at most problems—and the Mayacamas Mountains tower on one facet and the Sonoma Mountains jut up on the other. When the moon is whole—like this evening—it disappears and reappears behind the mountain tops as you pass. It’s as even if there are many moons proper right here.
Tens of tens of millions and hundreds of thousands of years prior to now, this place lay beneath the ocean. Then again the earth moves proper right here—now very similar to then, and this place rose up. You’ll however see the remnants of historical volcanoes and volcanic eruptions as you travel this valley.
At the present time, after the mellowing art work of nature over hundreds of thousands of years, the normal sea bed and volcanic landscape have been remodeled into cragged peaks that almost right away soften into places of riparian woodland, oak woodland, oak savanna, grassland, and marshland. There are areas up the edges of this valley where oak timber are underplayed with bunch grass of prehistoric origins. There are places inside the Valley of the Moon that have certainly not been disturbed thru the remaining versus the rising of the sun and the ambience of the moons.
