I saw Ray’s truck parked in the parking lot at Jenner as I pulled in this morning so I knew he was out there yakking somewhere.
I put my boat in the water and headed on down towards the river’s mouth as I expected to find Ray there.
Headed down river to the mouth. Nice day, but cool out.
I passed by these grebe. They’ve been seeing me most every day and are starting to get used to me. They just did there thing as I paddled on by.
I saw Ray’s boat down by the mouth and at about the same time I spied some turkey vultures on the beach, just getting some sun I think.
Ray’s at the mouth
Ray was just in front of the open river’s mouth just sitting and taking it easy in his boat.
We shot the bull for awhile just watching things as there is usually a lot going on at the river’s mouth. The ocean was fairly rough and it was high tide.
The ocean waves are constantly smashing against the shoreline so it’s sometimes a bit noisy.
Joined by a harbor seal
Eventually we started up the river. This seal joined us at the mouth and hung out with us all the way up to the top side of Penny Island, about a mile.
We passed by these birds bathing and preening in the water.
Haven’t seen these ducks before
As we approached the lower end of Penny Island I was checking out these two ducks as I haven’t seen them down here before and they didn’t just fly off like most wild ducks would.
We paddled up the back channel of Penny Island with our friend the seal following us and passed by these little ducks feeding in the weeds. They took to the air as we approached and we left the seal there somewhere as it disappeared.
Went to shore for a little walk
Ray was up for a little walk at Eagle’s Landing so we landed our boats there and started up the hill through these big trees.
We made it up to Lower Lookout Point where we sat down in the grass for a good bit and enjoyed the view.
And then went just a bit further up the hill to this spot and sat in the grass.
You don’t want to slip on these trails
The day was real nice and we were in the sun so we hung there for quite some time before heading back down, back through these big trees and ferns. Ray is going down the hill and grabbing something to stop him as the trail is very slippery here from the recent rains. If one were to slip, they might end up in the river.
I also proceeded down the trail very carefully.
This place is loaded with muskrats
Near the river I spotted this big muskrat nest, about six feet high.
We checked out that nest and then got back in our boats and paddled down the river to the boat ramp and went on home for the day.
It was late in the day and cool at home, so I just got some firewood in and that was my day.
Oh yeah, I did dig up some potatoes from my potato patch just as it was getting dark for dinner.
Hi Bob, those two unknown ducks are Brant Geese. Smaller than the Canada’s and they have that distinctive white neck ring. My favorite goose. I saw one only there earlier in November. They like to hang in bigger winter flocks on the salt water at Tomales Bay, and Drakes Bay.
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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.
Hi Dennis, Nice looking geese. I was surprised they were as tame as they were. They never did fly off.
Thanks,
bob
Hi Bob, those two unknown ducks are Brant Geese. Smaller than the Canada’s and they have that distinctive white neck ring. My favorite goose. I saw one only there earlier in November. They like to hang in bigger winter flocks on the salt water at Tomales Bay, and Drakes Bay.