I was up early for me this morning at my camp near Port Orford Oregon. My plan for the day was to head for home, about an eight hour drive. I was off at 9AM in some fog and mist which cleared up as I left the state of Oregon and entered California.
I stopped three or four times to eat and rest a bit on the way. Traffic was light. There were several places I had to stop where they were working on the road, but each stop was less than five minutes, so I moved right along.
The only picture I took was while waiting here for the dozer to stop pushing stuff down the hill, just to make sure none of it fell on any cars. They are rebuilding the slide so it doesn’t keep coming down.
I made it home just before 5PM to a sunny day. I found my two brothers working on the septic tank problem at our family rental. Lucky for me they had it all under control. It seems a root had grown into the septic tank outlet and was causing the water to back up into the tank. At least that’s what we hope will fix it once my brother fixes the pipe he broke to find the problem in the first place. I’ll leave that to him as I need to rest up from my trip.
I didn’t have much energy when I got home, but I did spend some time unloading some of the stuff from my van and now I’m beat and will hit the hay shortly.
My trip was a good one, although, with all the rain the river water levels were high and just starting to get good when I had to leave. I needed to get home for a Doc’s appointment soon.
I always enjoy my trips. Each one always shows me that my home is already in the best spot in the world already and just makes me appreciate what I have in the little town of Guerneville with the Russian River to paddle my boat on. It just can’t be beat.
Tomorrow I’ll be down at Jenner kayaking, checking out what’s going on since I left.
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.
