The wind was up a little as I put my boat in the water at Jenner this morning, but not too bad. I paddled over to Penny Island and decided to head on up to the muskrat area.
Starred trail
I took the starred trail on up the river as it was heading right for the muskrat area.
For some reason there weren’t many birds and critters out today. I sat in this spot for a good while looking for stuff.
Heron plays
After awhile, I headed on back down the river and was sitting by this big redwood log when I noticed the great blue heron in the back there doing something, so I had a closer look.
I’m not sure what the heron was doing exactly. But it was picking this stick up like it was fishing, then tossing it back and retrieving it again. Maybe practicing catching fish, but I really don’t think it needs to practice this as it does it all the time. Maybe just playing?
I left the bird playing with it’s stick and paddled on down the north side of Penny Island and stopped in this spot, just admiring the day as the wind was dying down.
Birds
I could see some bufflehead ducks feeding out in front of me. The bird in the front is a least grebe.
I also noticed these goldeneye ducks diving and feeding similar to what the buffleheads do. They’re a duck that comes here in the fall and feeds.
I headed on down to the mouth area where there were a bunch of birds resting and preening.
Most of the birds were seagulls, but there were also some brown pelicans.
Calm
I didn’t stay in the mouth area long. As I paddled away, the wind really died down to almost calm. I stopped here to admire the view from where I just paddled from, down by the closed river’s mouth.
As I was heading back in for the day, the water went calm and looked like this as I paddled along, going slower now as the day was so nice. I didn’t want to go in, so I took my time.
Visitor center roof
I could see the guys working on the visitor center roof finished the front side and the back side today. They just have the ends to do and then they need to put some kind of cap on the ridges. Looking good.
The gage reads about six and a half feet. With the mouth closed the water level is rising.
I hit the boat ramp and took my boat out and went on home for the day.
Cool day at home
It was cool when I got home, so it didn’t feel like a day to do much. I just did some puttering around in the yard. I did dig some potatoes up in my blueberry patch and washed them up for eating. My older brother Mike is supposed to bring me some more blueberry plants he dug up in his yard, so I need to remove some of the potatoes, so I got a good start on that.
Like I said, it was cool out, it’s winter here which isn’t really too bad. :O) Maybe sixty five degrees F., but the sun was already behind the mountains, so it felt cool.
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.
