As I got up and looked out the front window I saw my brother Barry pull in with his dirt bike in his truck. I needed to eat so I went out and told him to go for a ride and come back in an hour and we’d ride up and visit some neighbors that lived up on the hill tops.
So he took off and I cooked my dinner which I eat early in the day because of my corn thing if I eat later I itch all night and can’t sleep much.
Off we went
So he returned and I got my dirt bike out after calling my neighbor to make sure they were at home.
We rode up into the hills and I ducked through a hole in their gate and rode on up this road on the neighbors place. For some reason Barry wasn’t behind me after I went though the hole at the gate.
Hilltop view
This was the view from that road where I turned around to find out where Barry was.
Entrance gate
It turned out he couldn’t get that big bike of his through the hole in the fence I used. Lucky for him he remembered the gate combo he got during the recent forest fire.
We made it up to the neighbors place and shot the bull with them for a couple hours or so some about the old history of this area.
Tee shirt gifts
They presented us with these tee shirts.
The neighbors aren’t much for pictures so I tried to keep them out of them mostly, behind the shirt. And Barry is just checking out what the shirt says now that he has it on.
Neighbors helping neighbors
It says Pool Ridge Fire Brigade. They bought them for all the neighbors that stayed and helped out with the recent forest fire.
We stayed quite awhile and the day was getting on. The sun would already be down where I live in the valley but not up here in the hills.
Through the gate hole
We got to that gate again and Barry tried the hole in the fence and lost it as his bike slid into a ditch there but he eventually got through the fence.
Getting back to my house from the neighbors is a pretty good ride so we didn’t take many side roads on the way back.
Barry loaded up his dirt bike and my brother Tom drove up in his golf cart so we shot the bull for a bit before Barry took off for home.
It was a nice sunny spring day, a great day for a dirt bike ride up in the hills with all the green grass and wild flowers just starting.
Just to keep the record straight, I did not lose the bike in the ditch. I put the front wheel in the ditch to allow more clearance in negotiating the low bar. But I did manage to sprain my wrist lifting it out of the ditch before the bike went over the bank. And yes it was superb day for riding.
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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.
Just to keep the record straight, I did not lose the bike in the ditch. I put the front wheel in the ditch to allow more clearance in negotiating the low bar. But I did manage to sprain my wrist lifting it out of the ditch before the bike went over the bank. And yes it was superb day for riding.