I thought I’d go down to Monte Rio today and see if the steelhead fishermen were doing any good yet. The fishing season is just starting.
Boat ramp
I rode on down to the Monte Rio boat ramp and unloaded my boat.
It was a blue sky and a sunny day as I headed on down the river.
I paddled by this young great blue heron standing on a dock. This looked like a very young one, born last year.
Fishermen
Some guys were fishing in the Slot. I stopped to chat with them. Not any fish action but the day was nice.
I left them at it and continued on down the river mostly drifting in the current, taking my time.
I passed by this gull that was squawking about something, likely, where’s the fish.
Villa Grande
My goal was too go down to here at Villa Grande and sit and watch and just take it easy, so I did.
Here’s looking down the river from my sitting spot. Did you see the great blue heron up in the tree on the right.
Here it is. Looks like some woodpeckers have worked over that old dead tree.
Back up the river
Eventually I started my slow paddy back up the river.
A visit with Rick
I had stopped here when this guy came down the steps, his name was Rick. We started talking and ended up telling each other some stories about fishing and old times.
From there I continued on up the river and stopped to shoot the bull with the fishermen in the slot for a bit, then went to the boat ramp and pulled my boat out and went on home for the day.
Trail work in the forest
After a short break at home I jumped on the dirt bike and rode up to the top of the ridge where I wanted to hike through this area to see about putting a trail through these trees eventually. There’s already a trail down into this area but it’s a dead end and I don’t like dead ends, loops are much better.
I’d ridden down that trail and parked here to check out the area.
After walking around and checking things out I rode back up the trail.
Talking Trees Trail
Then I rode across the property to this trail I’d been working on. I stopped here and filled in a hole in the trail with some dirt.
Then it was down the trail and headed home for the day.
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.
