Steve was in the parking lot at Jenner this morning so I joined him and we headed down towards the river’s open mouth.
We paddled across to Penny Island and were paddling down the side when several great blue herons flew on by and landed.
River’s mouth is open
We continued on down to the river’s mouth. It was open and there were the usual harbor seals resting on the sand on both sides of the mouth. There was also a big bank of fog hanging out in the ocean which stayed out there and didn’t come in on us.
Some of the harbor seals resting on the sandy beach.
We hung around the mouth area enjoying the day then headed back up the river and up the back channel of Penny Island passing by these sleeping geese.
There’s a raccoon in the log says Steve
We keep paddling on up to the redwood log graveyard were we stopped for a break. While we were sitting there, Steve in the blue kayak says there’s a little raccoon inside the log.
Steve backs up to get a better look. I can’t see it from my angle so I move out and get hung up on the end of the log, but finally make it around to the other side of the log where Steve now is.
I looked and it finally showed itself.
It looked at us for a bit, not quite sure what to do.
Then it came out right in front of me, not more than six feet away.
It seems it had a purpose. It was digging in this spot and sinking it’s paw as far into the mud as it could reach. I think we interrupted it from this task when we pulled in by the log. Whatever it was, it wasn’t going to leave it because of us.
It finally got what it was digging for. I didn’t see what it was, but it’s chewing it up here.
After it ate what it was after it slowly worked it’s way off down the shoreline and we left it and headed on up the river.
We paddled on up to the muskrat beach area and sat for a spell, then went over to Paddy’s rock and looked around a bit. I passed by this loon preening in the water.
Checking on some berries
I wanted to check on some berries,but Steve only had shorts and catches poison oak so we were limited where we could go. I stopped here at Swamp rock trailhead and looked for some berries. I ate a few, but most of them burned up in last weeks heat.
From there we headed on in going by these white pelicans on the upper end of Penny Island.
We pulled into the little channel on the upper end of Penny Island and sat some before crossing the river to the boat ramp and taking our boats out for the day.
Need to remove the old radiator
We went on home. I wanted to finish taking the radiator out of my van, but couldn’t get it going, so I napped a bit. About an hour before dark, I finally went out and turned some wrenches and got the old radiator out of the van and then sat around watching it get dark.
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.
