Barry showed up in my yard this morning which meant we’d go for a dirt bike ride up in the hills.
We took off up through the Talking Trees Trail and on up. We stopped here so Barry could throw this log off the road.
And we stopped at the pond to have a look and to collect the card from the trail cam there mounted on the big tree.
And then we rode on down to the water pool and collected the card from the trail cam there on the big tree.
We rode around and stopped at two more spots to get the trail cam cards, then rode around some more and made it up to our break area at the top.
From there it looked like someone was over at the house down the hill aways. The state park has taken over that house and the guys are fixing some stuff up. We found them doing some fire prevention work around the house so we shot the bull with them for a bit.
We were checking out all the little wild flowers in the yard at the house.
We stopped at the Guerneville overlook on the way back to my house. Everything is nice and green down there.
Chainsaw
Back home we tried to get the chainsaw started as the other day I tried to use it and it wouldn’t start. We determined it wasn’t getting any spark. I told Barry I’d look at it a little later and he took off for his home.
Late in the day I took the chainsaw apart enough to get to the magnets and the coil module and found there was no power coming from the coil module, so it’ likely bad. I got a new one ordered up online.
Trail cam pictures
Here’s a few of the trail cam pictures I collected today.
A bob cat.
Wild turkeys.
A coyote. This is the only one I’ve seen in the area so far. Looks like a male to me.
And this mountain lion I caught on two cameras on the same day.
This was the same day, but at around 7:30 AM. It looks like the same one as on the other camera.
And I’ve been seeing this opossum showing up on my cams lately.
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.
