I haven’t been out for a paddle in quite some time so today was the day. I drove on down to the Monte Rio boat ramp to see if there was any steelhead fishing going on yet, but the river water was still too muddy. The boat ramp only had a little mud on it and will be busy with fishermen as soon as the water clears up.
Paddle at Jenner
I continued my drive on down the river to Jenner and put my boat in the water and started my paddle up the river, a short distance going along here.
With the river’s water being muddy from the recent rains, there weren’t a lot of critters around as with the water muddy, there is less to feed on.
I was headed to those big logs just up ahead where I would sit for a half hour or so just watching for things and enjoying the day.
Sit spot
This was my sit spot.
The cows were grazing up on the hill tops across from me.
Drifting down the river
Eventually, I turned my boat down river and drifted in the current going by these bufflehead ducks.
This great blue heron didn’t fly off and just sat there as I drifted on by.
Overlook
After getting out at the boat ramp, I drove the short distance down to the overlook at the ocean where the river meets it and flows into it.
Views
Looking north out over the ocean.
River’s mouth
When the river comes up in the winter, the river’s mouth moves north a bit and goes out into the ocean here.
Seals
There were a bunch of them resting down on the sandy beach as the ocean’s waves pounded the shoreline.
This was the view looking south.
Hunting for my Pulaski
I got home early enough to take a short nap, then I hopped on the dirt bike and rode up into the hills to take a walk out this trail. I needed to find one of my Pulaski trail tools I thought I’d hidden out there somewhere, the last time I used it. I hunted all around but didn’t find it but had a nice hike.
I sat around on that trail quite a bit enjoying the forest and thought, just maybe the tool was on another trail or back at home. I’m thinking maybe it is on the trail I was burying our main spring pipe awhile back.
But it was getting dark when I got back to the dirt bike, so didn’t go look, but instead hurried down to my brother’s chickens and put them away for the night.
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.
