The weather guy said it was going to be a little windy today and when I arrived at Jenner this morning, he was right. The wind was already up as I put my boat in the water and crossed over to Penny Island. The sun was out, so even with the wind, it was nice.
I pulled into the little channel on the upper end of the island and sat around for a good while warming up in the sunshine.
This pair of mallard ducks were resting on a log in the channel. They had one eye on me and didn’t move the whole time I was there.
I hadn’t made up my mind which way to go today, but with the wind, I decided not to head down to the river’s mouth as it would be windier down that way, so I headed on up the river.
These ducks went by me. They were diving for food.
I paddled on up the river in the wind, headed for Muskrat nest beach about a half mile more up the river. You can see it’s a bit windy from the waves in the water.
I was looking for a place to go ashore for a little walk. I needed a place that wasn’t too muddy and found a spot here.
Buzzard Rock
I was headed for buzzard rock which you can see in this picture, looking down towards the town of Jenner.
When I got to the top of Buzzard rock, I sat in the sun and the spot was mostly out of the wind. A good place to sit and enjoy the day, which I did. That little island down there is where Paddy’s rock is. This was the view from the top of the rock.
A closer look at the Paddy’s rock area showing the cormorants resting on the gravel there.
My view looking up the river from the top of the rock where I sat for a couple hours just taking it easy.
From the rock, I could see the wind was picking up some more. I decided to stay on the rock for awhile, maybe the wind would die down a bit, but it didn’t, it got stronger.
Hadn’t heard a gobble all day
I had seen some turkeys in the grassy field as I drove down to Jenner this morning, but I hadn’t heard a gobble all day, even though I was listening for them.
But as I came down off the rock, I heard a gobble across the river from me, so when I got back in my boat, I paddled across the river to see if I could find the turkeys. I didn’t find any turkeys right away, but I did find these geese resting in this spot. They honked the alarm as I approached, but didn’t fly away.
I kept looking for the turkeys and finally spotted this one as it came through the willow trees. I could hear some more of them on the other side of the trees, but I didn’t see any of the others.
I was over by Paddy’s rock where the cormorants where resting.
I worked my way down the river on the south shoreline, keeping out of the wind as much as possible and went on in for the day.
When I got home all I had in me was a nap and that was my day.
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.
