I went down to the Sixes River Month again today at the Cape Blanco State Park by the Hughes House to see about kayaking. I was going to go even in the wind, but when I got there the wind was just too strong so I parked here for an hour or so by the ramp and took it easy.
Hughes House
You could see the Hughes House across the field from me. The Hughes were the original people that lived on this ranch in the old days when people first settled in this area.
Real strong winds at the Cape Blanco Light House
I decided to drive the short distance to the Cape Blanco Light house where the wind is really known to blow.
Here I am looking out into the ocean. It’s fogged in here and the wind is really blowing. So hard one has to be careful opening a car door as the wind can rip it right off it’s hinges. It pulled my door right out of my hands, but didn’t break it as I tried to hold onto it.
Light house is in the fog
This is looking out towards the light house, but it’s hidden in the fog and I never did see it. I could hardly stand up in the wind.
Monster coming
I heard this monster coming up the road just a roaring and bellowing. It turned out to be this dump truck once it broke through the fog and dumped a load of rock here.
Squeezed avocados
From there I went back to town and stopped at the grocery store to do some shopping. I watched this one lady squeeze all the avocados several times and not even buy one. Needless to say I didn’t buy any.
Garrison Lake
I drove the short distance to the Garrison Lake where I sometimes kayak and expected it to also be windy and it was so I parked here for a couple hours napping and taking it easy. I had a cup of coffee and something to eat.
Harbor
A bit later I drove down to the Port Orford Harbor to have a look, looking south on the ocean.
Unloading fish
They were unloading the fish from this boat.
The fish are weighed and packed in ice for shipment to the fish processing plants somewhere else. There always seems to be a lot of character types receiving the fish and working for the fish buyers.
This truck is waiting for the days fish to all come in and he’ll be on his way to the processors.
Around five I headed back to the Elk River RV Campground and that was pretty much my day.
Tomorrow we are supposed to get my new tires mounted on the van if all goes well so that’s what I should be doing.
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.
