I arrived late at Jenner today, around 1PM. The sun was out and the wind was down as I unloaded my boat and put it in the water.
I paddled across the river to Penny Island and headed on up the river.
Startled this hawk
As I approached the shore across the river I heard a big noise as this red tailed hawk beat it’s wings against the tree branches as it jumped off the water where it was getting a drink.
I paddled on up the river to this area and slowly kept going on up to the muskrat area, up as far as you can see to the right.
Looking for critters
From there I crossed over the river to the north side here and paddled along the shoreline looking for critters. When I got to Paddy’s rock down there I crossed back to the south shoreline to the left.
I think that’s an otter
I was paddling along and something caught my eye across the river. I could just barely see it, but the motion it made, made me think it might be an otter and it was.
With the water muddy from the recent rains, I was curious to see where the otter would feed as most critters can’t see to feed in the water right now.
Following the otter
So, I stayed back and followed it down the river along the south edge and watched it to see where it would feed and what it would do.
It was picking some things up along the shoreline to eat, but I couldn’t make out what. Birds that were on the shoreline moved out fast when it came by.
It lost me a couple times, but I was patient and waited and I was able to spot it again.
Crunching noises
It stopped to eat something here. Otter’s can’t eat under water like the seals can, so they have to bring all the catch to the surface to eat, so they are fairly easy to watch feed. They make a lot of noise crunching things too.
Ducks don’t like otters
Even though the otter crossed these ducks a good distance away, they were on the alert and kept an eye on it as it passed them by.
Bye Bye otter
The otter got out for a rest here for a short time, then turned back up the river. I’d followed it about three quarters of a mile down the river. I left it and headed on down towards the river’s mouth area.
Headed to the mouth area
This was my view as I paddled along headed to the mouth area.
There were lots of birds resting down that way.
Mouth is open to the ocean
The river’s mouth was wide open to the ocean, looking on out into the ocean.
Some of the pelicans and seagulls preening and resting in the water.
Nice reflections
The sun was getting ready to set as I paddled back towards the boat ramp where I saw this great blue heron fishing.
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.
