It looked like a good day as I drove into Jenner this morning. The sun was out and the wind was down as I put my boat in the water and headed across to Penny Island.
The guys with the big cameras
I was paddling across the river here when I noticed two guys had big lenses on tripod mounted camera’s over at the café to my left so I started looking around to see what was of interest to them and spotted it in the big tree ahead.
I could see a bald headed eagle sitting up there so I paddled over near the tree.
I then headed on down along the edge of Penny Island to the bottom end of it and stopped for a bit, looking down towards the river’s mouth area.
I paddled out from the island a bit and spotted these ducks which seemed to be diving for something.
Brown pelicans and seagulls were in the water bathing.
More birds resting on the water.
I decided not to continue to the river’s mouth and turned around and headed back towards the island’s back channel where I went past these cormorants getting some sun.
Old critter eh
I went by this huge skeleton from some ancient creature. It’s about ten feet high and must have been a magnificent critter.
Otters approach
I paddled on up the river taking it easy, stopping here and there to watch. I turned around just past Eagle’s landing and started back down the river when four otters approached me and went to shore near by.
My camera’s not working too good oh oh
I noticed my camera was having a hard time autofocusing and wasn’t working right, so I needed a place to reset the camera’s factory defaults hoping that would fix the problem, so I pulled into this little channel on the upper end of Penny Island and reset the camera and it seemed to work. This was the first picture I took with the reset camera, before, it was all fuzzy, so I hope that fixes it. I’ve dropped the camera a couple times lately and it’s taken some good shocks, so I hope it’s ok.
Sitting in the river’s mouth
The day was looking real good and I could hear the ocean pounding the beaches so I decided to head down towards the river’s mouth and have a look at the action.
Lots of birds down that way as I approached.
I’m headed right to the mouth and I plan to sit in it and watch the waves breaking, just up ahead.
I went by this pelican on the way.
Crashing big ocean waves
I pulled into the mouth and sat here right behind the jetty and watched the ocean waves breaking. There were some big waves coming in. It was high tide, so I didn’t have to be concerned about any outgoing current from the river.
I watched these big waves breaking over the jetty’s rocks. The waves carry a lot of sand in them as you can see by how brown this one is. It’s depositing it into the mouth and damming it up causing the estuary’s water level to rise a bit. The noise was pretty loud in this spot.
More river otters
Eventually, I headed on in for the day. On the way to the boat ramp I was passed by five otters feeding on small fish. The water is starting to clear up a bit, so things will start eating more fish as it clears up more.
I took my boat out and went on home. I had some things I was going to do, but the sun was over the hill, so I had a nap and then went out and enjoyed the yard for a bit and that was it for the day.
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.
