I saw Ray’s truck in the parking lot at Jenner this morning as I put my boat in the water. It looked to be a good day with low wind and some clouds in the sky.
I paddled across to Penny Island. I thought I saw Ray way down at the end of the island heading for the back channel, so I kept going to see if I could catch up with him.
I could hear the ocean waves pounding on the sandy beaches as I paddled along. I could see some big waves breaking over the sand as I looked down that way.
I catch up to Ray
I rounded the bottom end of Penny Island and found Ray in his boat here, just starting up the back channel.
I joined him and we continued up the back channel headed up river. Some ravens were making a lot of noise on the island as we passed.
We paddle up the river only a short distance to the old redwood log graveyard and sat for some time enjoying the day.
We land here for a hike to Swamp Rock
Ray said he wanted to go for a little walk, so we headed back down the river and went ashore here at the Swamp Rock trailhead. We secured our boats to make sure they would be there when we returned.
We walked down along the shoreline as far as we could.
And then climbed up the bank to this spot where there was a trail to the swamp rock.
The Swamp Rock is on that hill there, just above center and that’s where we were headed through the swamp grass.
Here’s Ray hunting for the trail through the swamp grasses. It’s a good thing we don’t have any real bad critter types around here to watch out for, just poison oak.
We had to detour around the water in the swamp
We were hoping the swamp was drained of water so we could get to the rock, but we found there was still some water in the swamp, so we had to detour around a bit.
I was ahead of Ray just a bit and had to wait for him some. He was a bit slower as he had his short pants on and there were some nettles he had to watch out for. There’s also a bunch of poison oak just about everywhere in this area, so much it can’t be avoided, but we don’t catch the stuff, lucky us. The trail isn’t obvious and one has to know where it is to get anywhere in this area. See Ray in the brush there?
Made it to the rock
We made it up to the rock. There’s a real good place to sit just in front of the rock so we sat for a good while just taking it easy. This was the view from the rock looking over towards the town of Jenner. You can see the swamp water we had to go around down there too.
Eventually we headed back towards the river and this was our view just before we got back to our boats, looking over to the town of Jenner.
From there we slowly worked our way back to the Jenner boat ramp and took our boats out of the water and went on home for the day.
Planning for parts to hook up the old well
I had a little nap, then went over to the old well site and did some planning on what parts I would need to finish hooking the pump back up.
And continuing the work on the old tractor new 12 volt system
After that, I went back to my yard and worked on installing the new wiring harness in the my brother’s old Ford tractor. I also installed a new 12 volt starter.
Tom has another problem
While I was working on that, my brother Tom comes by and says he has another problem. Seems he can’t get the old drain pipe out of an old sink he was working on. We tried to get it apart with wrenches but it just wouldn’t come apart, so I suggested we use my portable power hack saw on it which made quick work of it and that was done.
I continued working on the old tractor and got most of it done. We need a new 12 volt battery now and I just have to install the electronic part that replaces the points in the distributor and it should be done.
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.
