I made it to Port Orford Oregon a couple days ago and have mostly been taking it easy resting up. It’s been windy most days so I haven’t had the urge to put my kayak in the water.
Port Orford Harbor
I’ve been down to the Port Orford harbor looking around a couple times.
Here’s what it looked like as I first pulled in and parked
This fishing boat was just pulled up out of the water by the hoist.
Then they drag the trailer with the boat over to the parking area with the pickup truck.
Fish buyers
I walked around the harbor. It’s a working harbor. There are two fish buyers here to get the fish off the boats and ready for the big trucks that come by to take the fish to market or to a fish processing plant somewhere else.
Here’s another view of the boats on trailers.
This is one of the fish buyers. They are receiving some crab and some rock fish. The fish they are keeping alive in big tanks to be sold at the Asian market in some city.
Catching crab
This fishing boat pulled in and they are unloading their catch.
They are unloading crab.
Fishing relaxed
These guys were fishing and doing it right. :O) I didn’t see them catch anything so it was just relaxing.
Nice boat
This is the newest biggest boat here. It just came in off the ocean and unloaded before I got there so I didn’t’ see what they were catching.
Maybe a poke poling spot
I walked over to this rocky cove at the harbor and was thinking poke pole fishing might be good here when the tide was out. So maybe when the tide is out I’ll check it out some more.
Elk River RV Resort
I’m staying here at the Elk River RV Resort at Steve’s place. It took three of us to supervise him dong some mechanicing for his neighbor.
Some wiring
Steve was trying to figure out how to wire a motion detector light so I supervised him and showed him how to do it.
Butter Brittle
That last batch of peanut brittle I made got a little burned as I got it a bit too hot, but it was edible.
So I wanted to try it again being careful not to overheat the sugar and I decided not to use the peanuts so it’s really a butter brittle. I don’t have a candy thermometer so I have to do it by eye. And I don’t have a recipe either so it’s mostly trail and error.
The thing that makes it bubbly is the baking soda. I put it in last which causes it to bubble up. I didn’t quite put enough soda in this batch but it turned out ok and tasted great. It’s much better when it doesn’t get burned and I ate about half of it during the day.
Tires are ordered
Steve works at a tire and mechanic shop so we worked a deal and the tires for the van are ordered. Part of the deal is I have to buy the owner two bottles of vodka and Steve and I will do the mounting so that’s free.
Peeps doing good
I got an email the other day from Dominique my chicken keeper assistant and partner. She says the chicks are doing fine with no problems so that is good.
I should get my tires soon and will likely head on home after that at least by this weekend. One nice thing about being by the ocean is it’s cool, almost too cool so while the rest of the country is burning up it’s nice and cool around here. Port Orford is sorta a quiet type of place and not as touristy as the coastline north of here which is to my liking.
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.
