The wind was already up when I arrived at Jenner this morning. I put my boat in the water and headed up the river slowly, stopping often.
I went by this great white egret resting on this log pile just above Penny Island.
I always stop here if the wind is blowing too much. I stopped and was getting some napping in.
Steve shows up
I saw Steve arrive, so I waited for him to catch up. I was heading back down the river when he caught up with me.
When he caught up with me we headed back up the river to the Muskrat area going by this area which I call Eagle’s landing.
White pelicans
There were some pelicans resting across the river from us by Paddy’s rock.
Too much wind at Muskrat
We made it up to the muskrat area, but the wind was blowing into that area so we didn’t stay long. We turned back down the river looking for places out of the wind as it was blowing fairly good by now.
We stopped by these redwood logs just ahead as the wind doesn’t blow too hard in this area.
As we pulled up to this redwood log down the river a bit further, this great blue heron was staying out of the wind using the log for cover.
These white pelicans were getting some rest on the upper end of Penny Island.
No easy landing at low tide
We were going to go for a walk on Penny Island, but the tide was out and there was no easy way to get to shore without getting wet, so we abandoned that idea. Here’s Steve coming around the end of Penny Island after looking for a place to land and giving up on the idea.
It was way to windy down towards the river’s mouth area so we decided not to go down there and went on in for the day and went on home, sometime just before five PM I think it was.
Working on the old van
I puttered around the yard and did little things that needed done to the van before I install the new radiator. I got done most of what I need to do and am now close to being ready to install the new radiator. I was also figuring out where and how to install some new LED backup lights in my rear bumper which should allow me to see better backing up and help me judge distance better in the dark, I hope.
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.
