The weather guy said the wind was going to be around ten miles an hour today, but he was wrong.
I put my boat in the water around noon and paddled across to the island and headed on down it’s edge looking like this.
I stopped here and there taking my time and eventually I started the cross over to the river’s mouth area.
I saw John at his house so I went over and talked with him a bit and then continued on going past these pelicans bathing in the water. There were some seagulls doing the same.
Looking down towards the open mouth
I could see the ocean was fairly rough as I could see and hear big waves like that one breaking over the big rock out in the ocean. But it was nice and calm in here where I was.
There were quite a number of seagulls bathing in the water around me.
It was low tide and the river’s mouth was wide open to the ocean. Something caused the seagulls to jump into the air for a bit, but they soon settled down again.
As usual, there were lots of harbor seals resting on the sand.
We seemed to be having some kind of meeting
Eventually I left and headed over by the bottom end of Penny Island where I saw a couple turkey vultures doing something on the shore, so I paddled on over. I was only twenty feet or so from them. More landed like we were going to have a meeting or something.
I backed off to take this picture as I was right up there with them. They didn’t appear to be eating anything, just sitting and taking it easy.
Almost ran into this great blue heron
I left and paddled up along Penny Island on the front side where I ran into this heron. Lots of times when I get near a critter, I put the boat into glide and don’t move and just take pictures. I never am quite sure which way the boat might glide and sometimes it glides real close to critters. If I move they would spook so I just keep taking pictures.
The result is sometimes I get really close to critters. Now this particular great blue heron I’ve been going by almost daily so by now it knows it’s wasting it’s time to fly off as I don’t bother it. But still, this is pretty close, about six feet.
Here’s one of my best shots of it.
I left it fishing and continued on up the river.
This is just above Penny Island. It’s getting late in the day.
Changed my mind and went ashore
I paddled on up to eagle’s landing. I wasn’t going to go to shore because the sun had already gone behind the mountain, but when I got to the spot it looked so nice I went to shore and spent some time here.
A little sun would be nice
But eventually I thought some warmth from the sun would be nice, so I headed back down the river were the sun was still shining, but just barely as it was gong to go down for the day.
I’m headed down river into the last sunshine of the day.
This was the sunset as I paddled over to the boat ramp at the visitor center.
I put the boat on the car and drove on home and that was it for me today.
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.
