As you can see it was real nice as I put in the water at Jenner this morning and headed down towards the river’s open mouth area.
Birds
I could see lots of birds as I approached the lower end of Penny Island.
White and brown pelicans preening on the gravel.
And an egret with some mallards.
I went by these mallards feeding in the weeds.
River’s mouth is open
I paddled down towards the mouth area and went on by to the end of the river just to the right.
I was watching this egret preening.
After that, it did some fishing too.
Harbor seals
There were a couple harbor seals frolicking in the water close by.
Eventually, I left the area, going by these harbor seals resting on some submerged sand in front of the open mouth.
I crossed back over the river towards Penny Island.
I continued on up the side of Penny Island on the right.
Pelicans
On the way, I passed by these brown pelicans.
And I went back by the white pelicans who were now mostly napping.
I decided to call it a day and went on over to the boat ramp and pulled my boat out and went on home.
Work on the van project
After a short rest, I went out and worked on the van. I installed the rest of the clutch linkage and adjusted it, so that’s done. I tried the larger fan belts I bought for the ones that were just a little too tight to install and found them way oversize, so I’ll try again on that one.
I worked on how to install an air filter as I wanted to use the old one I had on the old engine, but I was having a hard time making it fit now. I haven’t decided to use what I have or buy a new one. I got the old one in there all right, but there’s not really a lot of room for the type of filter it is, so I’ll have to decide on what to do on that one.
I need the right spark plug wires and I need to hook up all the electrical stuff now and I’m almost there.
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.
