My plan today was to go to Jenner and kayak and then go to Santa Rosa after to do some shopping for the van project.
Brown pelicans that way
I put my boat in the water and paddled across and looked down river towards the river’s mouth area. This was the scene. Feeding ducks and pelicans flying around hunting for something to eat. These were the brown pelicans which hunt mostly for fish.
Headed up the river
I decided to head on up the river as I planned for a short day so I could go shopping later.
I went by this great egret fishing away. It missed on this one.
Osprey in the water
I passed by this osprey taking a bath and preening in the water.
It was rather nice out, so I was already thinking of canceling the shopping as I paddled up along here.
I stopped at Otter’s log and enjoyed the day.
Lots of white pelicans
Across the river by Paddy’s rock, I could see these birds resting on the gravel. Mostly pelicans, some cormorants and ducks.
River otters hunting
I was sitting here when thee otters charged until they saw me and turned around.
There were five or six of them fishing along the shoreline.
I followed them for a bit before they ditched me by going to shore for a nap.
No sir, no shopping for me
I worked my way up to here and was sure I wasn’t going shopping today.
Lots of white pelicans
After a good sit in that spot, I crossed the river to Paddy’s rock where all these pelicans were resting on the gravel bar.
Here’s some of those pelicans as I rounded Paddy’s rock.
Otters go by again
From there I could see the otters hunting along the shore line on the other side of the river so I went over and followed them for a bit, but they were going back up the river and I was going down so I left them hunting away.
White pelicans gather to feed
About this time most of the white pelicans flew off down river to this spot were they appeared to be feeding.
They crossed the river to the south side so I paddled on over to have a look. They were feeding but some of them were playing with sticks and feathers. The one there has a feather it picked up somewhere and was doing something with it. It still had it in it’s beak when I left and headed on in for the day.
Nap and some work on the van project
I went on home for a nap, then went out to work on the van project.
I was working on the radiator overflow tank. I needed some way to hold it in the van. I tried drilling some holes for a way to hold it in, but the spot I needed to drill was in a tight spot and all I did was break drill bits, so I gave up on that idea and thought about it some more. I could see one bolt there I could use to hold a bracket in, so I decided to make a bracket to hold a strap and buckle.
Here’s the bracket I made to hold the strap.
I applied some paint to the part and mostly sat around the rest of the day figuring out what I still needed to do and how.
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.
