Nobody was home yesterday when I tried to visit these guys. Turns out they were in Hawaii for a wedding and just returned last night.
So, today I caught them all home. I rode the dirt bike up to their place on this road. Notice all the leaves on the ground. Fall time.
And I continued on up this road to their place.
And on up this road.
Not as much haze in the sky today.
They live just down below this spot, I’m riding down their driveway and you can see part of their house there.
I shot the bull with Rob’s wife and than him and his kids.
Spring tapping
One of the reasons I rode up today was I’ve been helping Rob tap a fresh water spring as that’s one of the things I’m an expert on.
My spring tapping video
I made this video and put it up on YouTube quite some time ago. It has about 90,000 views on it, so I think I’ve helped a lot of people out with this. I use my own method which is mostly different than how other people do it. I use the new and improved easy method.
We needed some blue clay to do the project so Rob is looking for some in the big ferns as water seeping over the ground for years is what makes blue clay. Rob has his shovel and is looking for some as this is under the spring we are tapping.
He found some blue clay and is filling his bucket up to haul it the short distance to the spring tap area, just above him.
Rob is playing in the clay, well, actually, he is forming the blue clay to make a basin to catch the spring water.
We got more of that done than I expected. He just needs a stainless steel screen and we can finish it up.
Heading for home
After that we sat around for awhile shooting the bull then I hopped on the dirt bike and started home on this road.
I took this road. There’s more than one way to get back home.
I turned off that road and onto this trail through the redwood trees.
Once home I let the chickens out to feed and did some puttering around the yard until the day started to cool down when I went in 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.
