The weather guys said it was going to rain today and be windy too. So, I thought it would be a good day to get in touch with Salmon Creek Ranch to see about getting some grass fed beef which they have frozen. I called and talked with them and they said they’d be there and gave me directions on how to get to their ranch near Bodega CA.
Taking care of business
But first I called my VA coordinator to see if my third party allergy appointment could be made yet. The lady said she’d make it now and call me back, so I waited a bit when she called back and said she faxed my stuff to the Doc and I could make an appointment with them by tomorrow. Great.
Forgot the camera
I headed for town and stopped and got gas and realized I forgot my camera so I went back to the house for it, only a couple miles. I wanted it to take some photos of the Salmon Creek Ranch as I knew it was up in the foothills near the ocean and would be all green with spring grass.
Anyway, I headed out, through Monte Rio, Occidental, Freestone and the town of Bodega. I turned off on Bay Hill Road and started up the hill.
Entrance to the ranch
Somehow I missed their gate and had to turn around and come back down the road. I stopped and opened the gate and went on in, closing the gate of course.
I went past this herd of goats on the way in. Nice and green up here.
I’m heading down to the house and store area, almost there.
The store area was easy to find. I pulled in and got out of my car with camera in hand. They must of thought I was a tourist type. :O)
Something to eat
I met Lesley and we pulled about two hundred dollars of grass fed meat out of her freezer. I wasn’t looking for steaks. I just need something to eat. I mostly bought London Broils and some chuck and roasts. My diet will now be this beef and oranges from my brother who grows them in Healdsburg in hopes that I can get the corn out of my system. So far, I think this is my best bet after about seven years of trying to get the corn out of my diet. I hear it takes two weeks to a month or more to clear stuff from your system, so we’ll see. Any improvement would be nice.
I loaded up my car and headed on out, noticing all these ducks. They sell duck eggs too.
Big dog
There were some more goats in this pen, but mostly I was watching the big dog that had a good bark. But I could see the dog had it’s game of running and following my car out, which looked more like he was having fun then doing guard duty.
Bodega Bay
As long as I was at Bodega, I decided to take a ride out to what they call the Head at Bodega Bay, so I headed on over there.
I went by Spud Point where there is a lot of fishing boats.
And by the Bodega Bay Jetties where boats enter Bodega Bay.
The Head
I drove up the hill to the Head which is an overlook. It’s good place to spot whale’s and such on a nice day, but not today as some rain was coming in.
This was looing north from the Head overlook. Jenner be up there about as far as you can see on the coastline.
I looked around a bit, then headed on back down the road going by the fishing boat area again where there are crab pots laying around everywhere. That’s because crab season was called off this year.
Jenner overlook
I headed on up highway one to Jenner where the winds weren’t as bad as the weather guys said and it wasn’t raining yet. I was headed to the overlook just past Jenner on highway one that overlooks the river’s mouth area.
This is what the overlook, looked like, looking up the Russian River.
The river’s mouth is open and the ocean isn’t that rough at the moment.
Some harbor seals were resting on the beach by the open mouth. Note the big cement rock on the end of the jetty seems to be getting ready to break off.
Here’s a closer look at it. The crack seems to be getting larger so maybe what’s left of the block is about ready to break into the ocean. This will be the second block I’ve seen erode and wash away in just a few years.
I went on home and put my meat away and then took it easy for most of the rest of the day.
Allergy appointment
At 4:30, I decided to try to make my allergy appointment so I gave them a call. I got one, but I have to wait almost a month for it. I could get another doc but that seems like too much trouble so I’ll wait and eat my beef and oranges and hope things get better. The end result of the allergy Doc will be to abstain from corn stuff which I’m trying to do now anyway. My main reason for going to the Allergist is to see what else I might be allergic to.
I did a little puttering in the yard and then it got dark, so that was my day.
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.
