I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do today. But eventually I decided I’d head down to Monte Rio for a paddle and see if there was any steelhead action yet.
Steelhead fishermen up ahead
I put my boat in the water at the boat ramp and headed down the river to where those guys in the boats were fishing for steelhead.
I stopped to chatter with them before continuing on down the river. They were enjoying themselves, but no fish action yet. It’s early in the season.
I slowly drifted down the river.
There weren’t a lot of birds on the water today but I did go by these guys taking it easy.
Headed to Villa Grande
I was headed down to the Villa Grande hole, just up ahead. It’s only about a mile down the river from the Monte Rio boat ramp.
This is Villa Grande where I planned to hang around for a bit today. It was nice an peaceful with no one else around, so I just sat in my boat over in that corner for most of the time.
The great blue heron stopped by for a bit before taking off again.
And this kingfisher stopped by for a short stay, chittered and took off.
Nice peaceful spot to sit
This was my view from that corner looking up the river.
I hung around that spot for about an hour then started back up the river, stopping here and there taking my time.
I’m headed back to the Monte Rio area which is up ahead by that hill.
I stopped by these ducks that were taking it easy. Mallards.
Shooting the bull with the fishermen
Eventually I made it back up where the two boats of fishermen were fishing and pulled into the brush so I could shot the bull with them for a bit. Still no fish action, but it was a nice day to be on the river.
I left them at it and headed on up to the boat ramp where these mallard ducks greeted me. They slowly moved out of the way.
I took my boat out and went on home. I seemed to be worn out, so I napped and then took it easy for the rest of the day.
Nice photo of that Kingfisher. They’re hard to get close to.
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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.
Nice photo of that Kingfisher. They’re hard to get close to.