I arrived at Jenner to sun and low wind so it looked like it was going to be a nice day.
I put the boat in the water and paddled into the river’s current and headed on down stream towards the river’s mouth area.
I paddled down along the north shoreline that looked like this.
Lots of ducks on the water today
I went past these ducks.There are lots of ducks on the lower estuary right now. They seem to be successfully feeding even in the muddy water.
And lots of big planes in the sky
I made it down to the mouth area and was sitting talking with a couple people when the guy noticed some big planes flying by low just over the mouth.
There were at least ten of them, flying north slowly and quietly. I could tell some of the planes were refuelers. They flew up north a ways and then made a turn out into the ocean and some of the planes came back. I think they were practicing a mission with the refuelers. I was surprised how quiet they were.
Pushed some wrong button on the camera and missed some good photos
As it was, I pushed some wrong buttons on the camera and it got stuck in a delay so I didn’t get the best pictures of the planes when they were the closest to us.
The river’s mouth was open about twice as wide as normal.
Looking out the river’s mouth into the Pacific ocean. Beacon rock there.
Eventually I headed on back up the river. It was a fine day. I could see some cows grazing up on the hillside above Jenner.
Heading on up the river along it’s edge
I continued on up the river going past the upper end of Penny Island and continuing on up along here.
Looking for birds
I slowly made my way up to the muskrat area and sat for a bit, then crossed over to the other side of the river to look for birds.
I could see a bunch of them up ahead. I decided to take the inside route, taking a chance of getting caught in the shallow water just in front of the birds. I thought I could make it over it, but I was wrong, the river had moved more gravel into this area during the high flood waters.
This pair of mallards was resting on the shore as I went by.
And all these mallards checked me out as I approached.
There were some geese there too honking a warning, making a lot of noise.
Stuck in the gravel
There was a fairly strong current were I was and it pushed me into this shallow area. I sometimes can make it through this area if I stay close to shore, but not today. I got stuck with the current pushing me down into the gravel more, so it was hard to get back out. I had to push into the gravel with my paddle going backwards, but with the current pushing and my boat dragging the bottom, it took a lot of effort. In the process I scared all the birds away.
I did get turned around finally after expending quite a lot of energy and paddled back up to Paddy’s rock to get around the shallow spot.
These male and female merganser ducks were resting on the gravel by Paddy’s rock.
I put my boat into the down river current and drifted on down along here headed for the boat ramp at Jenner, just up ahead.
The tease bird sat still for a change
As I drifted down I spotted a tease bird in the bushes so I tried for a picture and surprisingly the kingfisher didn’t fly off. They’re a hard bird to get a close detailed picture of as they usually fly off just before you push the camera button.
I pulled into the boat ramp and put the boat on the car and headed on home. I stopped at the Monte Rio boat ramp to check it out. It’s still about fifteen feet under water and I think pretty muddy too.
I made it home for a nap and that was pretty much my day for a nice one./
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.
