I took off and headed for the hills after putting a shovel in the rig.
My first stop was at this spring to clean it out a bit so the water flows better.
Pond
Then I rode on over to the pond and looked for a yellow jacket nest in a hole by the inlet water. I looked and looked but could not locate it in the ground.
Fish
Even though the ponds water level has been dropping fast the little fish are doing just fine.
Water hole
Then I rode on down to this little water hole to divert the drain water to where it will drain down to where the waterfall is down below this level. I want to drain the water more to the left side with a little ditch I need to make.
Here is another view of this little water hole.
The drain ditch wasn’t too hard to shovel out despite a few rocks. You can see the ditch towards the back.
Now the water is flowing the right way towards the waterfall down below this area.
That little dich should dry up this big muddy area.
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.
