The sun was out and the wind was down. Looked like it was going to be a nice day kayaking at Jenner.
I put my boat in the water and paddled across to Penny Island and headed up the river.
I’m going through a bunch of weeds along Penny Island.
I worked my way up to the old redwood log graveyard and sat for a good spell. The fog was waffling around a bit.
Diving pelicans
Some brown pelicans were flying around hunting for fish to dive on. Here’s one of them diving on some fish.
Looks like it was a successful dive as it swallowed something as I watched.
Eventually, I continued on up the river going by here.
Nice spot
As I was getting to the muskrat area, the little wind we had died down to this.
I sat around here for a bit just taking it easy.
I went to shore here and went for a short walk through this stuff. Lots of poison oak in this area, but still real nice to walk through.
Lotsa birds
Eventually I crossed over the river to Paddy’s rock. As I rounded the rock, I found all these ducks resting there on the gravel.
Just down from there I ran into these cormorants, ducks and white pelicans.
White pelicans
The pelicans gave me the eye as I passed on by.
After I passed, they took to the sky.
I continued down along the North shoreline approaching Jenner here.
As I headed for the boat ramp, I looked down the river towards the open mouth area which looked like this.
I pulled into the boat ramp and put my boat on the car and went on home for the day.
Nap time first and then worked on the van
A nap was in order after which I went outside and worked on the van project. Today, I installed the spark plugs and tried to install the spark plug wires, but to my surprise, the plug wires ends that went to the HEI distributor were the wrong size. Somebody made an improvement and changed the wire connections on the newer distributor, so I will have to take the wires back and get the newer ones.
Needed to mow the raspberry patch
I then tried to start the mower as I wanted to mow the weeds in my brothers raspberry patch as they were taking over the patch. The darn mower wouldn’t start. I pulled the spark plug and checked for a spark and there wasn’t any, so I had to fix that. I dug into the engine and found there was some dirty greasy stuff shorting out the magnetic pickups on the flywheel. I cleaned up the magnets and reset the flywheel coil gap for the coil pickup and it now has a spark, so I put it all back together and it started right up.
So, I was able to mow the weeds in the patch. I did find a couple ripe raspberries and ate one of them and left the other ones for someone else as this is a new patch and isn’t producing much yet. Yummmmm on that one berry. These are the huge raspberries and very tasty.
Oh, oh, cut the water line
In the process of mowing the weeds, I cut the berries water line, so I informed my brother about that so he can fix it eventually.
By now I was pretty worn out, so I took it easy for the rest of the day which was almost gone anyway.
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.
