We had a long way to go today. I was going clear across Oregon to Port Orford and Marty was going most of the way then splitting off for home on his own.
But first we had to get across the lower part of Oregon.
Good gravel road
We left our nice peaceful campsite at the shallow lakes and got going around 9:30 on this gravel road which was mostly pretty good with very little washboard.
Eventually we made it to a paved road and went through this little town.
And by this place too.
I-140
We traveled I-140 mostly, going to Lake View to gas and continuing west for most of the day.
Bearings and lunch
We were almost to I-5 here when we stopped to get our bearings and have some lunch.
Looking for a road
Marty left me for home near when we hit Highway 5 and I continued on to find a road over the coastal hills to get to Port Orford without going way south or way north.
I’d been on a road going over the mountains several years ago but couldn’t remember which one or where it was.
Agness road
So I decided to take the road to Agness which was paved more or less. It turned out to be 58 slow miles. Narrow with lots of construction going on fixing the pavement. More turns on that road than any I’ve ever been on. The gravel road I travelled several years ago was much better.
This is the road as I started up it and was too busy driving to take any more photos along the way.
Should have camped
It was getting late when I thought about camping for the night and I should have but I continued on that road and arrived around 9PM where I was to stay at Rene’s place at Port Orford.
Finding Rene’s place
It was dark and I had a hard time seeing the road to his place as it was a steep one and I couldn’t remember the name or where it was off the main road as it was too dark to see much so I went the short distance to Port Orford and found the road on my GPS and programmed it in so I could find it in the dark.
That worked and I made it to his place where I said hi and settled in my van for the night.
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.
