Yesterday Steve and I drove on up to the Port Orford Headlands just west of town to check it out.
There used to be a Coast Guard living quarters here in the old days and there’s some trails out on the headlands overlooking the ocean.
Here’s the main place. There’s a museum here but it was closed. We walked around and checked things out.
They had this old coast guard boat on display. It’s made to roll over and not sink and was used to recue in the old days before modern boats.
Trails
We were more interested in the trails that go out onto the headlands. This is the start of the main trail which was a real easy trail.
I followed Steve on out the trail. It wasn’t steep at all.
They had a number of these memorial benches spaced out along the trail which were real handy.
Views
One of the views of the ocean from the trail looking North.
The north trail ended here where we had a nice break and a rest enjoying the views.
After a good break we got back on the trail and headed south for a short distance.
Looking west over the ocean.
We didn’t find any place we could get down to the ocean to fish but it was a nice hike.
Today checking out Rocky Point
Today we were going to check out Rocky Point at low tide to see how the fishing might be.
Tide was early in the morning so we had to get it going early, around 7.
This is Rocky Point at low tide and there are lots of tide pools to check out once we got down to the beach.
First we had to make our way down this rocky hill to the beach. Slow and easy so we didn’t break our necks.
I was trying to show Steve how to poke pole for fish but he wanted to just fish with a regular fishing pole so he went off to do it. The only trouble was he was trying to high tide type fish at low tide so he didn’t do well. I thought he had his head up his butt so I gave up on him and went off to explore down towards Rocky point leaving him up on the sandy beach.
Tide pools
Some of the tide pools as I headed south very slowly as the rocks were real slippery.
Eventually I made it around Rocky Pont and saw some biologist type people down in the rocks there.
Good spot to fish
The biologists were counting and measuring some of the shell fish, mostly the muscles on the rocks. The fishing looks good here but Steve never saw this part.
I worked my way back up along the rocks headed on back, looking north.
I found Steve with no fish and we climbed back up the rocky slope to our cars.
Steve took off when we got back to our cars and I drove down the road a bit more so I could have a look at this low tide beach. I’ll have to come back to this one some time and have a better look.
After that I went back to were I was staying and had something to eat and a good rest.
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.
