I broke camp this morning and got back on highway 140 west to Lakeview.
This was the road I took back to the main road from camp.
Lakeview Oregon
I got gas at Lakeview and did some shopping and got back on 140 west across Oregon.
Traffic on 140 was mostly light with some construction going on.
Lots of trees in Oregon. With trees comes fire and the air was full of smoke all day.
I went by this lake which I think is one of the Klamath Lakes, but everything was smoky.
I had to do a piece of freeway five near Medford I didn’t like much as everyone was in a hurry and there were a bunch of them on the road. Yuck.
Coastal mountain route
But eventually I got onto this road to the coast over the hills. It’s not used much as it’s fairly long and rough in some spots.
Much smoke
I’m hoping to get out of the smoke as I get further into the coastal mountains, but so far no luck.
Some of the road even had a center stripe on it, but that wasn’t’ the norm.
Detour
There was a detour for about twenty miles where the road turned to rock which was a bit bouncy.
Didn’t clear the smoke for camp
I was hoping to clear the smoke before I made camp, but the road was too long and the smoke too much. I think I will have to make the coast to clear the smoke which I will do tomorrow.
This is my camp for the night. Just a small side road off a side road in the forest.
On to Port Orford
Tomorrow I will continue my drive to the coast about an hour through these mountains I think. Then north to Port Orford where I hope to find some internet access to post this blog.
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.
