I put my boat in the water at Jenner this morning and paddled across to this spot by Penny Island to decide which way to go for he day. The fog was waffling around a bit, mostly clearing off as I decided to paddle on down along the side of the island and head to the river’s mouth area to see what’s happening down that way.
I sat here at Penny Island, then continued on down along the side.
I passed by these terns resting on the lower end of Penny Island.
The wind was picking up a little as I crossed over toward the mouth area up ahead.
I sat here in front of the open mouth for a bit. Lots of harbor seals resting on the beach there. The ocean was gently pounding the jetty.
Eventually, I turned and let the wind carry me slowly up the river towards the island back channel. I stopped in this slot for a bit watching as the fog was trying to come back in.
I paddled up the back channel and around the upper end of the island and stopped in this spot for awhile watching the fog.
Then I worked my way down along Penny Island to this spot I like to stop by the reeds, just in front of the little town of Jenner.
Peekaboo bird
As I was sitting there, something caught my eye. A bird was playing peekaboo with me in the reeds to my left.
The bird would peek out at me from the reeds just behind my paddle.
The bird made a short appearance.
It took a quick look, then scampered back into the reeds where I could see it hunting around for food.
I headed on over to the boat ramp and went on home for the day.
Working on the van’s engine compartment braces
I was eager to get the braces I’d started making the other day finished. I needed to weld some more stuff onto them and do some more fitting and paint them.
I added the long tongue on the drivers side and made the slider for it which you can see on the ground by the left bracket. I also drilled the holes in the bottoms of them and drilled holes for some pop rivets which will fasten them to the engine compartment and make it all strong.
I think this is better than the store bought stuff
Here’s the tongue slid into the slider piece just to check things out. I haven’t drilled the holes in the slider piece yet, as I’m just testing for fit. The slider will be pop riveted to the engine compartment later. This should make the side fairly rigid.
Here’s a close up of he tongue slider. It’s made in such a way as to be one metal thickness out, so it goes over the rubber seal better.
Paint always makes things look nice
I took the braces off to paint them gray with three coats, so tomorrow they should be dry enough to install them which will really move me along on this engine compartment split task. I should take delivery on my new engine in about a week which will go fast so I need to keep moving along prepping things so I’ll be ready.
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.
