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Article: Delta discoveries: enjoy a houseboat hideaway among the many inviting waterways of California's Central Valley. (Travel).
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- May 1, 2003
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The whistle of a red-winged blackbird awoke my husband and me on our final morning on the California Delta. Golden light slanted through the tule reeds and into our houseboat cabin, and the sky was a cusp blue. The evening before, we'd tucked into a cove west of Stockton as the sun dropped behind the horizon. Our reed-shrouded hideaway was delightfully remote.
It was so peaceful, we could hear the gentle lapping of the San Joaquin River at the boat's stern, but only at the boat's stern. We walked out to discover the bow banked in mud.
That weekend, the delta taught us that even every beautiful moment has its lesson.
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