i'm also joined today by ben botkin from the bay area water trail association of bay area governments. we are here today to present an overview of the bay area water trail.. as you may be aware, the court has been working with wider recreational enthusiasts for number of years on providing improved water access for for recreation. the water trail patient is a network of planning and launching sites around the nine county bay area for non-motorized small boats or human powered boats, as we often referred to them. so, what you see here is a list ration the entire san francisco bay area and the blue dots recognize the bay area water trails vision for water landings to establish, again, all water trail within the vacant odyssey, they would not be a suicide trail and the designation of new water trail landings is to accommodate improved access for all to the bay for recreational boaters. a little bit of history that the bait area water to. it's origin was goetsch the idea was initiated by an organization called bait access. some of the founding members of bay access included two former cen