It was foggy as I drove into Jenner this morning and put my boat in the water. It was a little windy too, so there weren’t many people using the water.
This is what it looked like as I paddled across to Penny Island looking up the river.
The fog did seem to be clearing as I paddled on up along the edge of Penny Island headed up the river, where I figured there would be less wind.
I passed by these two terns resting on the gravel. The seem to face into the wind while resting. Maybe that’s because they are aerodynamic in that direction.
Fog cleared out
I continued crossing the river and the fog was lifting and the wind settled down a bit.
Lots of birds today
There were a lot of birds resting along the shores today. I could see these ones across the river from me as I paddled up the river.
I didn’t paddle up the river very far, only about a mile to what I call the muskrat area here, looking up the river to the highway one bridge.
That was as far up the river as I went, then I crossed over to the other side to check out what bird life was in that area.
I went by these feeding birds, two pelicans, an egret and a great blue heron.
And just past them, by Paddy’s rock these ducks and cormorants. Mallards and merganser ducks.
Continuing on, I passed these cormorants.
There were really a lot of birds here today. I passed by these birds, cormorants and ducks.
And some geese too.
A little walk
I eventually ran out of birds on that side so I crossed back over the river and went to shore here to look for berries, but didn’t find any as they are all gone now, it seems. But I did have a nice little walk.
From there, I headed on back to the boat ramp and went on home for the day.
Wrong screw at Monte Rio auto parts
I did stop at the auto parts store in Monte Rio to try and get a TBI screw for my injectors. The guy checked the screw I brought down for a sample and supposedly matched up a screw to it, but when I got home and checked it, the thread was not right. So, to keep from wasting a bunch more time hunting one of those screws I got on line and ordered a screw kit from Amazon. Three screws and a gasket, seventeen dollars. A bargain actually.
Mounting the seat belt mounts
After a nap, I went out to work on the van project. I wanted to get the seat belt mounts mounted so I drilled some holes in the support braces I made and mounted them here. I hope they will work out this way, if not, I’ll change something as I have a couple more options.
And a cover for the hole I made
I needed a cover for the hole I made to get the computer wires through the engine compartment, so I made this out of a piece of plastic barrel I had cut up to make my fan shroud several months ago. It’s to seal it off to keep the heat out and more importantly to keep those pesky little mice out. The cover is that orangey looking thing there, behind the seat belt latch.
I did some more painting, giving things a second and third coat of paint and took the rest of the day off.
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.
