Ray was just pulling into the parking lot at Jenner this morning as I drove in. We put our boats in the water and headed across to Penny Island to decide which way to go today. While we were there a bunch of biologists motored on past us and pulled in here to take samples of what’s living along the shoreline for feed for fish. There was another group diving down in the deeper river water taking the same type of samples off the river bottom.
River’s mouth area
We left them at it and headed on down to the river’s mouth area. The mouth was open behind the jetty.
These harbor seals were keeping an eye on us as we sat and watched things in the area.
Ray’s says there’s some geese up on the bank there. Sure enough, I hadn’t seen them as they sometimes blend in quite well with their surroundings.
I did see these surf scoter ducks sitting on the sand though. They seem to be getting use to us and didn’t fly off this time.
After hanging out at the mouth for quite awhile, we headed for the Penny Island back channel. We noticed these two black things on a big sand mound and couldn’t quite tell if the spots where vultures, or just pieces of blackwood. They turned out to be turkey vultures. The one on the left seems to be taking a sand bath or something?
Ray wants to walk
Ray was up for a walk, so we looked for a place to go ashore that we wouldn’t get all muddy as it was low tide and there was a lot of mud along the shoreline.
We checked Penny Island to see if we could land easily, but we couldn’t so we decided to go up just a bit further to swamp rock trailhead and land, which we did.
We landed our boats, tied them up and decided to walk up the poison oak alley trail that goes along the river’s edge.
Here’s Ray just below eagle’s landing as we walked along the trail.
Eagle’s landing is always scenic. We stopped here for a break, then turned around and started back down the trail.
Here’s Ray eating blackberries. Some places we found and ate quite a few of them. By the end of the walk, I’d had my fill of berries.
We worked our way back down the trail through this meadow, which is just full of poison oak. That’s the town of Jenner in the background.
We were both beat when we got back to our boats, so we took a break on the shore before getting back in and heading on in for the day.
We headed on home and I hit the couch for a nap. After that, I puttered in the yard, trying not to do any work today, just taking a break and enjoying the yard.
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.
