It was 34 degrees F. as I got it going this morning, outside of course. I was talking with a guy in the Jenner parking lot and he said it was 48 degrees F. as he got out of his car. Jenner is always warmer I think because of all the water.
The sun was out and there was almost no wind as I paddled on up the river.
I paddled along here. That’s Paddy’s rock across the river.
I paddled on up to Muskrat and sat here just enjoying the day.
Eventually, I headed on down the river going down the island’s back channel.
Is saw a couple scrub jays in the brush by the island and remembered Sherri wanted to compare the western scrub jay to her eastern scrub jay, so here you are Sherri. I think ours are bluer.
I continued on down to the river’s open mouth and sat for a bit. There were a bunch of seagulls flying around.
After awhile, I headed back up the river paddling along here.
I heard Ken working on something up in his yard, so I banged my paddle on the boat figuring he’d be curious and look and he did. We shot the bull for a bit during which this hawk flew in and landed in the tree just over our heads. He didn’t say much, just listened.
I let Ken get back to work and ran into this great blue heron laying down in the grass which I’ve never seen before. It seemed to be just taking it easy resting.
I was sitting in my boat just past the heron when I heard a familiar splash behind me. I know that splash to be the sound of harbor seals with one of the big fish coming into the river to spawn, so I turned and waited and watched. Seals eat under water and you just don’t know where they will surface and these seals where moving fast and not staying on the surface for long. Usually there’s a seagull or two on the surface that stays just above them waiting for a morsel, but not today.
Not the best shots, but this was the best I could do. Two seals with a big fish. It’s rather large, maybe a king salmon?
And here they are with it again. They disappeared after a short time.
I continued to the boat ramp and pulled my boat out of the water. I moved that tree branch a little to make some room to back my car down, but it was too big to move very far without breaking my back.
I stopped to check out the Monte Rio boat ramp on the way home. The water has drooped quite a bit and left some real slimy mud to deal with.
I stopped to see John on the way home and found him working on splitting some firewood out on the street by his house. Actually he was shooting the bull more than he was working when I got there.
I shoot the bull with him for a bit then went on home and got the firewood in for the night 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.
