Ray said he’d meet me at Jenner this morning. He was at the ramp as I drove in and put my boat in the water. He said his brother John was coming down too, so we waited a bit in our boats out in front of the boat ramp for a bit for John to show up and he did shortly.
Let’s go for a hike up to the rock
We paddled across the river to Penny Island and decided to go up river to the place I call Muskrat and go for a hike up to the old Indian Lady’s Face Rock.
Heading up the river along Penny Island looked like this this morning.
We putted along stopping here and there. We stopped at Eagle’s landing for a bit. Here’s Ray and John at Eagle’s Landing.
A friendly little bird
This little gull that came by yesterday, came by again today and came right up to the boat. I think it is a little Bonaparts gull. Sure is a friendly little guy.
Heavy poison oak area
We paddled on up to the muskrat area and found a place to land our boats which wasn’t too muddy and went ashore. We secured our boats and started up the hill going through some thick poison oak. Fortunately none of us catch it much as the place is full of it and there is no way one could avoid it all.
Here was one of our views as we hiked up the hill looking back down the river towards the town of Jenner. That’s Buzzard rock to the left which we will stop at on the way back.
It’s not hard if you know where the trails are
We went through a lot of brush, but if you know where the trail is it’s not too hard to get to the ridge top. The trail goes through a number of different micro climate type areas so it’s an interesting hike. And because the trail is just an animal trail, it works out every muscle in your body which us older guys need.
The big rock
We are headed for that big rock on the left where we are going to sit for a good break.
I let those guys get ahead for a bit so I could get some pics of them going to the rock.
This is the rock where we sat and enjoyed the view.
The view from the rock up the river to the highway one bridge.
I saw this cow down in the field enjoying the little pond.
We stayed on the rock for an hour or so shooting the bull.
Just as we were leaving this hawk flew in flying circles hunting. We watched it for a bit before it flew off.
Headed back down to the river
Here’s Ray and John as we just came off the rock and headed back down to the river.
Stopping at Buzzard Rock
On the way down we veered off the trail to another one and are going to the rock just below John which I call Buzzard Rock.
We were standing on the rock when we heard a bunch of geese honking up in the sky. It turned out to be quite a number of geese. I think they were stopping over on the way south.
This was the trail just below Buzzard Rock. It’s not hard to get through if you know where the trail is. A lot of that stuff is poison oak which is dormant right now.
Paddling back down to Jenner
We got back in our boats and headed down the river. John said good bye and headed on in faster than Ray and I wanted to go.
This was the river view as we headed on in down to the town of Jenner.
Ray and I aren’t as young as we used to be
Ray and I realized just how beat we where as we pulled into the boat ramp and loaded our boats and went on in for the day.
That was pretty much my day as I was too pooped to do much once I got home.
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.
