It was foggy as I approached Jenner this morning and put my boat in the water.
I paddled across the river and up the side of Penny Island where I saw these two merganser ducks resting on this big log in.
Pelicans fishing
Up ahead, I could see some brown pelicans circling and looking for fish to dive on, so I headed up there and planted myself pretty much in the middle of them.
They were flying around looking for fish in the water.
I think they look like dinosaur type critters.
Trying to take pictures of these birds was about the same as trying to take a photo of a fluttering butterfly, but I kept trying just the same.
I was eyeing this one as it came in closer and closer.
It started to maneuver, so I got ready to try for that action shot, diving.
It was fast and this was the best I got.
I got it hitting the water too, well just a split second after maybe.
I sat and watched these big birds circling and diving for about a half hour before I moved on up the river to the muskrat area where I sat for a good while, before starting back down the river.
I was just going by this spot.
When this kingfisher temped me for a picture, which I got just before it took off, which is better than usual as they usually take off just before the picture is taken.
Closed river’s mouth area
By now most of the fog had lifted for a nice day. I headed on down to the river’s mouth to see what was going on and pulled in up along the sand and sat and watched.
These harbor seals were across from me. Most of the harbor seals stay on the ocean side when the mouth gets closed, so there weren’t many here today.
Haystack rock
Some brown pelicans were resting over in front of Haystack rock. You can really see how the rock got it name right now with all the yellow lichen on it.
I noticed this group of younger pelicans off to the side on the left of the above picture.
The more mature pelicans seem to have white heads as you can see.
Eventually, I headed on back up the river and went on in for the day. From there I drove on over to Santa Rosa to get some corn less coffee beans and some magnets at Harbor Freight. Corn less coffee, 25 dollar a pound, three pounds please. People say that’s a lot of money for coffee. I reply, how much do you pay for your drugs? :O)
The magnets I got to make a new bug screen for my van, as they hold the thing in place. Oh, I also got a hot stick glue gun which I will try to use to hold the magnets in the bug screen.
On the way home, I stopped by to do some visiting with the Sandburg’s and had a nice visit.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
