This is what it looked like as I crossed over the river to Penny Island this morning. A little fog and overcast and the wind was down.
Some pelicans were flying around looking for something to eat.
I paddled on by these geese on the upper end of the island.
And there were three crows cawing about something. Here’s one of them.
I slowly worked my way up the river and could see these birds resting by Paddy’s rock, across the river from me.
I was paddling along here when I spied an osprey up in the trees on the right.
It put it’s wings out for a moment as if to fly, but settled back down as I passed.
I continued on up the river headed to the muskrat area just up ahead.
This is as far up the river as I went today, about a mile. I hung out in this area for some time watching and napping.
As I was sitting there taking it easy, these mallard ducks landed and started feeding on the weeds in the water.
Eventually, I paddled across the river to Paddy’s rock. When I rounded the rock, I ran into all these birds taking it easy on the gravel bar.
I continued on down the river’s north shoreline along here.
Young river otters
Where I ran into three otters headed my way hunting as they went. They looked like young otters. There are three of them in this photo. They went to shore and hid in the brush as I passed.
Just past them and almost back to the boat ramp, I went by these flowers blooming. Pink Ladies, or naked ladies maybe?
I continued on to the boat ramp and went on home for the day.
Work on the van project continues
Of course I had a little nap then went out and did some work on the van project.
The other day when I hooked up the clutch linkage, I noticed one of the activating levers was badly worn and it’s been wearing on me, so I took it off and had a look at it and made some plans to replace it once I get a new bolt to make what I have planned work out.
I also studied the problem of where I was going to put the radiator overflow tank. It seems there isn’t much room to put a good sized tank so I had to work on it. I have some ideas on that one too. I’ll just have to wedge some kind of tank in there somewhere.
The rest of the day I spent thinking about what and how I need to do what I have left to do.
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.
