The wind was down today for a change so I went on down to the river for a paddle.
Foggy
I put my boat in the water noting the fog was waffling around and trying to come in.
Getting ready to put in at the boat ramp and looking at the fog down where the ocean is.
Headed for the ocean
My plan was to paddle down towards the ocean to have a look around so I paddled across the river and started down that way going by this great blue heron fishing.
And I pasted by these two birds feeding along the river’s edge.
Too foggy to see
But just gong a bit further I noted the fog was thickest and getting thicker where I wanted to go especially on the right there.
Up river
Since I wouldn’t be able to see anything once in the fog I changed my mind and turned around and headed up river instead, going by Penny Island on the right.
That fog was moving in and out so I didn’t escape it as I paddled along.
Cormorants
I spooked these cormorants as I went on by.
Hike to Swamp Rock
With the fog moving all around I decided to go for a hike up to that rock on the hillside which I call Swamp Rock.
I found a place to land at the Swamp Rock Beach and landed and went to shore.
I was hopping the swamp had dried up by now,……But.
Swamp area
I had to cross this swamp area which at first looked encouraging like it had dried up.
Wet
I found the trail to get to Swamp Rock but on the way I ran into this water which blocked my way unless I wanted to get wet, which I didn’t. I hunted for a way around the water but couldn’t find one so had to abort the rock idea.
Where’s the trail
Now this is an interesting area as if you don’t know where the trail is or can’t find it you aren’t getting out of here. It’s a fairly easy trail to find on the way in, but finding it again to get out isn’t so easy. I thought I knew where it was and went to that spot but I was wrong.
This had happened to me before so I had an idea where that trail was and looked a bit more and found it, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this blog. :O)
I went by this big spouting fern coming out with the new stuff for the year.
When I got back to my boat I noted the fog had moved in even more looking down towards the town of Jenner.
Resting spot
Since I didn’t get far on my walk I found a nice place in the grass by my boat and had a good rest for about an hour.
That gave the fog some time to move out a bit and I headed on in to the boat ramp at Jenner.
I made it to the boat ramp and loaded up and went on home where the sun was out and it was nice and warm. The fog can be a bit on the cool side.
Even with the fog it was a nice paddle and even a nice little walk.
As long as you have time and don’t get entirely engulfed, the fog is rather peaceful.
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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.
As long as you have time and don’t get entirely engulfed, the fog is rather peaceful.