I mounted the stake brackets to the trailer with a couple of bolts.
And then I put a couple more coats of paint on the pipes and let them dry.
Going for a ride
I haven’t been down to the ocean for quite some time now, so I got in my car and rode on down to the overlook at the river’s mouth.
This is the view looking south over the river and into the ocean.
Looking North, the river is flowing out into the ocean.
And I could see a bunch of harbor seals and birds resting on the sandy beach.
Harbor seals and some cormorants.
And there were some brown pelicans there too.
After a good look, I headed for home.
Flagging a pipe line
I’d like to run one of the springs way down the hill to another spot that would be nice it if had some water. I rode the bike up into the hills and parked here, where the pipe would cross the road from the spring up above.
The idea is to walk through the woods and put up flags where I think the water pipe should go. It’s important that the pipe line has a nice even slope on the way down the hill and doesn’t go up and down, so the flags are carefully laid out working my way down the hillside.
I walked and laid flags all the way down to the spot where I want the water, then I turned around and walked back up to the spring, adjusting the flags to better spots as I went.
I have a good line of flags, now I need to walk the line and count my steps to estimate how much pipe I will need, but not today.
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.
