Things were quiet as I pulled into Jenner this morning. So quiet you wouldn’t think it was a Friday, but that was ok with me as that’s the way I like it.
I put the boat in the water and paddled across to Penny Island which looked like this looking down towards the ocean.
Sleeping heron
I saw this great blue heron sitting on this log as I quietly approached.
Ha, I caught it sleeping and was able to drift into about twenty feet from it.
It opened it’s eyes, but since I was already so close, it just sat there. Note the little white feather on the end of it’s bill which is always an indicator that it had just been preening not long ago.
I sat with the bird for about ten minutes, both of us just taking it easy.
Eventually, I decided to head up the river which looked like this. The clouds were lifting and the sun was coming out and warming up the day.
I paddled through these old redwood logs on the upper end of Penny Island.
And I went by my buddy the harbor seal resting on a submerged redwood log. When the mouth is closed and the water comes up, their regular logs up the river go way under the water, so they seem to move down river here to rest.
Just past the seal, I went by these cormorants and a seagull also resting up which all the critters seem to do after filling their tummies with fish in the morning.
Warm day
The day was looking good and it was heating up, so I had to remove a sweater as I paddled on up to my resting spot.
One of my resting spots is here at the muskrat area looking back down to the town of Jenner.
While sitting there taking it easy I noticed this cow wading in the water which I rarely see them do.
So, I paddled over to check the cow out to make sure it wasn’t stuck in the mud or anything like that. As I approached, the cow moved up on the shoreline, so I knew it was ok.
Wild turkeys
I was surprised to see these wild turkeys just ahead of the cow. I hadn’t seen them since mating season in the spring.
I paddled on down along the shoreline looking for birds along the way and went past this egret, also resting.
I was headed to the closed river’s mouth area along the island when I ran into these birds.
The coots where feeding on the submerged grasses. Their numbers are slowly increasing everyday.
Things were real quiet at the mouth area also. Not many birds and most of the harbor seals had left to be on the ocean side as it’s a long ways for them to cross over the sand, so most of them tend to stay on the ocean side.
There were a few seagulls and this brown pelican flew in as I watched and shortly flew off again.
As I was leaving something caught my eye, a lone seal crossing over the sand headed for the ocean.
I was getting warmer so I had to take off another shirt as I headed back in for the day.
I took my boat out of the water and headed on home, but decided to stop in and see how Ray was doing. He’s been having some GERD problems lately. I visited with him and his wife for about an hour then went on home for a nap.
I had plans to do some more digging on my water pipe project, but that didn’t happen. Instead, I just puttered around the yard for the rest of the 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.
