The sun was out and the wind was down as I drove into Jenner this morning and put my boat in the water for a paddle. Some fog was waffling around and mostly on the way out.
I paddled across to Penny Island which I usually do and decided to head on down and check out the river’s mouth area to see what was going on in that area.
As I paddled down along the island I could see plenty of bird life ahead.
These geese were honking noisily as they flew on by headed on up the river someplace.
Stopped to talk with John
I paddled on down and stopped at John’s house and shot the bull with him for awhile. This egret was fishing away in front of us as we talked away.
Fogs moving out
From John’s house I could see the open mouth as the fog was leaving the area.
Open River’s mouth
I headed on over to the open mouth. I could see there were a lot of birds in the area as I paddled on over.
Took up my spot
I paddled into this spot and watched the goings on for a bit.
Brown pelicans everywhere
I could see the harbor seals and all the brown pelican’s preening and resting across from me.
The brown pelicans were out in force today.
Here’s looking out the open river’s mouth into the Pacific ocean.
Fishing pelicans
Eventually, I left the area and headed back up the river where I found the brown pelicans fishing away up near the visitor center. Here’s just a few of them.
They were really hitting it fishing for something, fish I guess. :O)
I left them at it and continued on up the river. This is by the upper end of Penny Island, just a bit before the wind picked up. Lots of birds up this way too.
Interesting herons
Up ahead I could see two great blue herons putting on some kind of display interacting with each other. I think it might have been a pecking order thing as one flew off shortly after this.
I paddled up the river along it’s side taking it easy and stopping often along the way.
Wind picked up nicely
The wind started to pick u as I approached the Eagle’s landing area here so I turned and headed back down the river.
As I said the wind picked up nicely and I enjoyed a windy paddle back to the boat ramp where I put my boat on the car and went on home for the day.\
Pooped
I was planning to do some work on the van, but I was just too tuckered out, so I napped instead and eventually went out and studied what I still have left to do on the van engine conversion project.
I did get the oil pressure sending unit installed so that was at least something.
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.
