It rained a bit early this morning before I got up, so the forest ground was nice and damp.
Back to the trail work I went. I needed to widen this spot in the trail as it was too narrow and the water pipe was showing too so it needed some more dirt on it.
I added a few redwood limbs to help hold the dirt to widen out the trail.
I worked on it for about three hours to get it like this.
I was beat and could barely move so I sat in my chair and enjoyed this view for a bit. I think it tried to drizzle once or twice but it barely got through the large trees.
Up to the overlook
I rode up to this overlook spot to take a good break and enjoy the view.
This was the view. I need to trim those two branches at the top that are messing up the view.
Game cards
I started to head for home from that spot, but instead decided to collect the game cam cards and picked up one here that covers this intersection.
Foxgloves
I rode on past our pond on the way to the next cam. All the green stuff around the pond is Fox gloves coming up. This should be nice in the spring.
I took this short cut and stopped to throw this stuff off the road to get up to the next game cam.
This was the next game cam I stopped at.
It covers this intersection.
From there, I headed down the hill through this area.
Game cam pictures
Besides the foxes going by these two deer went by. This one.
And this one. I think they are up here eating the acorns that are falling right now.
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.
