I joined Ray and John at the ramp in Jenner this morning for a paddle around the estuary. The sun was out and the wind was down and looked like it was going to be a nice day and it was.
We put our boats in the water and headed across to Penny Island and decided to head on down along it’s edge.
paddled onto the flooded island
With the river’s mouth closed the estuary water level was up so half the island was flooded so we headed on in to the flooded area on the island.
We sat around here shooting the bull for quite some time then left the island headed for the closed river’s mouth area.
Here we are just leaving the flooded island.
Headed for the closed river’s mouth just up ahead. Nice day eh.
River otters
Ray got there first and said there’s some river otter’s eating some crab. They saw us coming and left the area.
River’s mouth is closed
We are approaching the jetty where the river’s mouth is usually dumping water into the ocean, but it’s closed up with sand.
There were lots of birds down here in this area. Here’s just a few of them.
John went to shore for a bit.
Just sitting around
We sat around for more than an hour shooting the bull with all the birds flying round us.
Eventually we slowly worked our way over to the back channel of Penny Island and made our way up it to the upper end of the island.
Here we are just entering the island’s back channel.
We were taking our time but eventually made it back to the launch ramp.
Nice day, almost too nice to leave but we did.
Once home I got something to eat and the day was gone and getting dark so that was it for me today.
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.
