I went on down to Jenner today to kayak. The fog was light and coming and going and the wind was down to a breeze so it was nice.
I put the boat in the water and paddled across to Penny Island and headed on up the river going by this spot.
I passed a couple merganser ducks resting on this rock.
And this family of mallard ducks getting out of my way as I paddled by.
I made it up to muskrat where I was sitting when these biologists from the Bodega Marine Labs came by. I think they were changing batteries and collecting data from their measuring stations. They headed up the river waving as they went by.
Eventually I crossed over the river to Paddy’s rock and worked my way down along the side looking for birds and critters.
I went by these merganser ducks.
And by all these ducks resting on the gravel.
As far as critters, these cows are all I saw other than birds. Nice to soak your feet while getting a drink of water.
These geese were making a lot of noise as I approached and got out of my way.
I paddled along this shoreline heading in for the day.
I made it to the boat ramp and put my boat on the car.
Thinking of heading to Boonville
On the way home I was thinking I should get the van ready to roll and go up to Marty’s cabin in Boonville for a few days.
So when I got home I started getting it together and plan to leave for Boonville tonight.
Of course there isn’t any internet where I’ll be going so I will post when I get back, likely late Saturday.
Well, another nice peaceful yak yesterday. you are probably gone by now but I hope you have an enjoyable few days in Boonville.
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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.
Well, another nice peaceful yak yesterday. you are probably gone by now but I hope you have an enjoyable few days in Boonville.