I knew my brother’s dirt bike battery could use a charge so I hopped on the bike and headed for the hills but first I stopped to see what my brother Tom was doing in his garden.
Armstrong Valley Farm
Him and his helper were planting something which you do a lot in the spring.
Overlook
I left them at it and jumped back on the bike and rode on up the hill to the ridge top overlook.
The town of Guerneville is down there by the Russian River and in a forest.
I also noticed the wild lilacs are blooming nicely.
Fixed this spring
I rode around on the forest roads for about and hour and then headed on back stopping at this spring that my brother uses for his gardens.
The pipe had some silt in it so I wiggled it around until it cleared and the flow looked like this.
Good at the tanks
I continued on down the hill and stopped to check that our main water tanks were full of water and they were so all was good.
I made it back to the house where a nap was in order.
Evening paddle
After that I puttered around in the yard until evening when I jumped in my car and drove on down to Jenner for an evening paddle in my kayak.
Nice and quiet down here at this time of day so I put my boat in the water at the boat ramp and headed up river a bit going by these birds.
Island back channel
I decided to go down the island back channel and head towards the ocean.
Paddling down the island back channel.
The wind was mostly down and the sun was headed that way too as I started to cross over the river headed to the mouth area just up under that sun.
A harbor seal with her pup were resting on the sand as I paddled on by.
River’s mouth area
I made it to the open river’s mouth where there were a lot of harbor seals resting on the sand.
I hung around the mouth area for a bit then turned and started a slow paddle on in to the boat ramp.
The river has calmed down for the day as I head on in about a mile to go.
Tuckered out
When I got home I was tired out so I didn’t stay up long and went to bed and that was it for me that day for a nice one.
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.
