Bob's Eyes

Friday November 11, 2022 Jenner CA.

Paddle day

I haven’t been on a paddle for quite some time now, so today was the day to get er done.

Around noon, I headed for Jenner, down by the ocean where the river runs into the ocean.

I got the boat in the water and the car parked and then got in my boat and paddled across the river to Penny Island and stopped here for a bit before continuing on down along the island’s edge.

The estuary water was extra high today indicating the river’s mouth was closed, dammed up with sand so the river water couldn’t get into the ocean which made the estuary like a big lake.

Penny Island flooded

That meant a good part of the island was flooded so I took advantage of that and paddled on into the island and sat around there for a bit checking things out and enjoying the nice day.

I watched this great blue heron getting some sun.

Big Old Redwood log

I could see something moving on the top of the big redwood log up ahead.

I paddled over closer to see what it was.

Some blackbirds where getting some sun on the log.

Birds up ahead

After a good while on the water on the island I paddled off it and headed down towards the ocean. Lots of birds up ahead taking a bath and preening in the fresh water of the river.

I paddled closer to the birds and watched them for awhile. The big pelican’s are always fun to watch.

River’s end

Then I continued on down the river to it’s end and sat and watched for a bit.

The sky view from that spot.

Sun

The sun was getting lower in the sky to the west, which is over the ocean on the other side of the beach.

Eventually I left that area and started my paddle back up the river going by all these birds. Something spooked them into the sky and it wasn’t me.

I paddled on back going up the back channel of the island and spotted this hawk which took off shortly.

I pulled into this spot which is the top end of Penny Island and sat and watched and rested before heading in for the day.

Nice day.

Thursday November 10, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Plans change

I had checked the weather report for the river and it looked real good so I was thinking of going kayaking today.,,,,,,,,,,,, But.

Going for a ride instead

When I looked out the window Barry was there with his truck and dirt bike so I got my stuff and joined him for a ride up into the hills.

We rode around for about an hour then we went through our neighbor’s gate to go pay them a visit as Barry was interested in their new electric bikes.

These are the neighbors that live up on the hill tops, just up this road.

No one home but the dogs

Their three dogs where there barking away at us, but no one seemed to be home so we started heading on back down the road when we went by an old road I indicated to Barry we should go up it and check it out so we did.

Short walk

We could only go a short ways when the road got too narrow to be safe in a spot so we parked the bikes and went for a walk out it to see where it went.

We were curious so it sucked us in and we kept on going down it when I recognized it as an old road that went to an old orchard an old Italian family used to own, before I was born, but I’d been up here a number of years ago exploring around.

The road went down through here.

And down this way to the old orchard up ahead. There wasn’t much left of the old orchard, just a couple of old plum trees.

From the orchard we looked down the valley I live in towards the town of Guerneville were we spotted this one reddish tree down there, almost to town.