There were school kids on the boat ramp as I tried to put my boat in the water at Jenner this morning. But a school teacher moved the kids over to one side so I could back my car down safely and all was good.
Here’s the school kids getting a listen from one of the biologists.
Fishing heron
I paddled across to Penny Island where I saw this great blue heron catch this little fish.
I decided to work my way down the side of Penny Island towards the river’s mouth along here.
I passed this pair of mallard ducks that were feeding along the shoreline.
I stopped here in this spot for a bit before continuing on.
Open river’s mouth area
I crossed over the river headed to the open river’s mouth, down that way, but the big rock called Haystack rock.
These surf scooters were sneaking around me as I paddled along.
Of course there were a bunch of harbor seals.
Back up the river
I hung around the mouth for a bit, but not much going on, so I headed back up the river past the upper end of Penny Island.
Looking for berries to eat
I decided to ashore here at Swamp Rock Trailhead to check for berries to eat.
Swamp rock trailhead
I landed here at swamp rock trailhead.
I hunted around for berries to eat going on this trail trough the swamp, which his dry now.
Thimble berries
I found some thimble berries to eat, but not many yet. They are sorta like a raspberry.
I found some of these little black berries, my favorite.
Headed for the boat ramp
After my little walk looking for berries I got back in my boat and paddled over to the boat ramp and took my boat out of the water and went on home for the day.
Cut up a tree for fire protection
I gassed up my brother’s small chainsaw and cut this maple tree down as it was getting too close to my house, so it needed to be cut down for fire protection.
Of course that made a big mess that might take some time to clean up.
As long as I had the saw going, I trimmed and cut up some other stuff in the yard until the saw ran out of gas and that was about it for me for the day.
Nice day.
Biologists video
I’ve also been working on a video of the Sonoma County Water Agency biologists pulling their net as I watched.
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.
