Bob's Eyes

Monday January 22, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Washout

We had a real  hard rain last night for most of the night. That meant the creek came up a bit and this old bridge bulkhead I fixed last summer got washed out a bit. I just need to find the hole in the bottom and put some bigger rocks in it, eventually.

Trail cams

I have four trail cams setup around the forest. Today, I decided to move them all to new spots. I set the first one up on this tree on the left to watch this road that comes down into our old orchard.

I had to ride around a bit to pick the rest of the trail cams up but first I went up to have look at the waterfall. I parked the bike here and walked the short distance to the fall.

The fall was flowing pretty good. I checked it out and moved on to pickup another trail cam to move.

I stopped at this spot, the Guerneville overlook.

That’s the small town of Guerneville down there. The haze is just moisture in the air. There’s a river down there that you can’t see that floods a lot, but I don’t think it flooded yet this year.

I stopped at our small pond to pick up a camera on the big tree on the left.

I was going along this road, but ran into this downed tree that just fell over.

Exercise

I decided to do a bit of work on a trail to get some exercise. I spent a bit of time at the overlook before I got to work on the trail. I did get a couple showers from those dark clouds.

I walked out the trail to do a bit of work.

I quit before dark as I still had two more trail cams to put out, so walked back on the trail to the overlook, or break area.

Overlook

I made it to the break area or overlook for a break.

The sun was headed down behind the hills to the west.

On the way home, I stopped in two places to setup two more trail cams.

Nice day.

Saturday January 21, 2023 Guerneville CA.

Rainy day

Another rainy day today. The best thing to do on a rainy day is to get out there and enjoy it as the forest is real different when it’s raining. I put on my heavy rain gear and fueled up a quad runner and went for it.

When I was younger we’d be out there as kids without even a rain coat as they didn’t used to make much in the way of good rain gear. But as long as you have a good warm place to come back to it was no problem. And kids move around a lot so it was easy to stay warm. If you got real wet, you just went home and changed clothes, but usually we just dried out enough by playing in the rain, unless it was really coming down.

Actually, the harder it rains the more interesting the forest was with water running everywhere, We got wet playing in the creeks too.

Ride in the rain

Anyway, by the time I got it going, the rain had slowed down quite a bit.

The first place I stopped was here to repair this ditch a bit with the shovel. Riding over this freshly made ditch tends to mess it up, but eventually the dirt will harden up and it will all be good.

I rode up this trail headed for the waterfall.

This is the parking spot for the waterfall.

Waterfall and a new camera

Since the rain has slowed a bit, the waterfall wasn’t as big as I expected. I’ve noticed the last two times I’ve taken pictures of the fall, the water wasn’t very sharp for some reason, so when I got home I ordered up a new camera to replace the old one. I must of dropped the old one too many times.

From there I rode on up the trail stopping here to do a bit of ditching so the water crosses the trail better instead of running down the trail. Just a bit of shovel work.

I made my way up to the Guerneville overlook and this was the view from that spot.

Then I headed on down this road,…..But.

I ran into this road block which I could of cleared but didn’t feel like it so I turned around and went another way.

I was headed on over to pick up a couple of my trail cams that had been out there for a couple weeks now.

I stopped here to pick up one of the cams.

From there, I headed on back home. Just as I made it home the rain picked up real good which would of been a better time to be out there, but I was done for the day.

I had about 400 pictures on each trail cam I picked up, a lot of it was just rain.

I had deer, skunks, foxes, possums, squirrels, a coyote and this cat.

Mountain Lion

This is the first time a cam has gotten a picture of a mountain lion on the property.

Lots of rain

It’s been raining cats and dogs for the last 6 hours. I wonder where that old saying originated from? I’d like to see the waterfall now, but I think I’m in for the night. :O)

Nice day.