I stopped by the Vacation Beach summer dam to see how the repairs were coming along.
The guys were hard at it. They were all so busy they didn’t even notice me there taking pictures.
This was my view as I approached the dam area.
These guys were drilling holes in the cement to put in new anchors.
And these guys are making a place for them to work in the water. They seem to be using two methods here. The one on the left is a tractor tube filled with water and I think the one on the right, they are working on is a culvert with clay on the bottom to make a seal. There is an installed anchor on the cement to the right of these guys.
Now to kayaking
It looked like they were making progress so I headed on down to Jenner, where Steve and Ray were putting their boats in the water. I joined them and we headed down to the river’s mouth area.
We passed these mallards as we went along Penny Island, a momma and her little ones. They are growing fast.
The mouth is open
The mouth is open, but I think it will close soon as a lot of sand has been washed in during high tides, you can see the seals and birds sitting on it.
These were the harbor seals on that sand in the above photo. Nice dark coats.
We sat around the mouth area or an hour or so. Something got these seals attention?
Penny Island
Once we got tired of sitting around the mouth area, we headed on over to the west end of Penny Island were there were some terns preening.
We continued on up the back side of the island and I passed this little bird feeding on the shore.
A walk and some berries
We were looking for a good place to go to shore on Penny Island to go for a little walk and eat some berries.
Some of the berries I made disappear. :O)
After going for a walk and eating berries we continued on up the river to eagle’s landing and just a little further before turning back for the day and heading in.
Here we are heading in for the day down towards Jenner. Ray and Steve taking it easy.
We loaded our boats and went on home around four PM.
I put another coat of polyurethane on my van boards and did some more prepping on my van for my trip coming up soon.
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.
