I arrived about noon today at the Jenner boat ramp and put my boat in the water. The wind was up a little as I paddled across to Penny Island and decided to head on down towards the river’s mouth area. I could see some coots just ahead.
They moved off to deeper water and let me pass.
And I paddled by this great blue heron fishing along the shoreline. it squawked and took off.
These grebe are back for the winter. Every year there numbers seem to be increasing.
Low tide at the open river’s mouth
I paddled on down to the open river’s mouth. It was low tide so I didn’t get too close as to stay out of the outgoing current. Lots of birds were in the area, mostly seagulls with some brown pelicans.
I didn’t stay long and started back along the shoreline going by these birds.
And these birds.
I paddled up the island’s back channel and was coming out the channels top end here.
I paddled by this great white egret fishing along the shore. It took off squawking.
Nice place to go to shore
I put in at this spot I call Eagle’s Landing where I sat around on the shoreline for a bit.
A walk along the river
I also walked along the trail that goes down along the river which went through here. It’s called Poison Oak Alley Trail for good reason.
I didn’t go very far down the trail and mostly spent my time on the shore by my boat just enjoying the day.
Headed on in for the day
Eventually I headed on down the river and was headed to the boat ramp when I went by the big tree on Penny Island. The sun was almost down.
I pulled onto the boat ramp and loaded my boat on the car and went on home.
It was almost dark when I pulled into my house so that was my 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.
