It was a bit foggy as I put my boat in the water at Jenner this morning. I paddled across to Penny island and sat here for a bit, looking down river.
I was sorta curious to see how the river’s mouth was open so I headed on down along the islands edge and found these white pelicans resting on the lower end of the island in the fog.
I crossed over the river through the fog headed towards the open mouth.
Dungeness crab have arrived this year
As I was paddling along I noticed these seagulls acting like they were hunting for crab, so I watched them for a bit.
They jump into the air to dive
I watched this one catch one after another as it seemed to have the knack better than the other one that I was watching. Once they spy a little crab, they jump up in the air like this and dive to catch it in the shallows.
They were catching little one inch Dungeness crabs that I think swim into the open mouth with the incoming tide current. Sometimes there are thousands of these in the estuary at this time of year.
This one has one of the little crabs which it will swallow very fast.
Open river’s mouth
The fog was lifting a bit as I sat in front of the river’s open mouth.
I headed on back up the river and went by these little pipers. They like to feed along the shoreline.
Penny Island walk
I paddled up the island back channel and decided to go for a walk on the upper end of Penny island and landed my boat here and went for that walk looking for blackberries to eat.
The island is pretty thick with brush and berry bushes and looks like this where I was looking for berries.
I did find some which seemed about twice as large as the ones I’d been getting before.
Moved to Swamp rock for another walk
After eating some berries I returned to my boat and continued up the river, crossing it to the south shoreline where I went to shore again, this time at the Swamp rock trailhead here.
I walked around looking for blackberries to eat and found some. While I was there I looked up to see these white pelicans flying above me trying to decide which way to go.
I got back in my boat and headed towards the boat ramp. Some fog had moved back in as I watched this great blue heron eating some little fish it was catching.
The fog was moving in and out as I watched. This is what it looked like as I headed for the boat ramp by the visitor center at Jenner.
I put my boat on my car and went on home for the day for a nap.
Working on the van
After awhile, I went out and worked on removing some things from the van so I can pull the engine out. I removed the seats and the compartment hood and drained the coolant and removed a couple other things in preparation for taking the engine out.
I didn’t’ work too hard at it as I plan to work on it this weekend and have plenty of time to get this one out before I get another one.
Nice photos, especially of the gulls eating the baby crabs. I bet they swallow fast because it would hurt like the dickens if the crab got a clamp on the esophagus on the way down. Looks like I missed a good day out there.
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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.
Nice photos, especially of the gulls eating the baby crabs. I bet they swallow fast because it would hurt like the dickens if the crab got a clamp on the esophagus on the way down. Looks like I missed a good day out there.