I headed on down to Jenner around noon today and put in my boat. There were quite a few boats on the water today so I had to be patient at the ramp putting my boat in, as a lot of people just seem to dally a lot on the ramp which tends to plug it up.
I paddled on up the river and ran into Steve at Otter’s log here.
We pulled into Otter’s log for a break and shot the bull for a bit, eventually continuing on up the river to this spot which I call Eagle’s landing where we stopped for a bit some more and just sat and watched enjoying the day.
Just past that, Patti came by in her boat so we shot the bull with her for a bit before continuing on up the river to this spot by some reeds.
I had planned to go as far as the green grass which I call Muskrat beach and I stopped there for a bit.
A pair of mallard ducks was watching us to make sure we didn’t get to close.
Flowers and horses
This was our view across the river and up on the ridge top where the horses hang out.
I decided to move up the river to this area which I call the Grotto and we stopped there for a bit, but Steve wanted to go just a little further.
To this spot where we stopped for a good while before crossing over the river to the other side to look for wild life.
Geese
I could see there were some birds across the river and once we got close enough I could see it was a family of geese, which headed out into the deeper water for safety.
Steve went ashore on the gavel bar by Paddy’s rock while I stayed in my boat and went down along the shoreline looking for birds.
I went by these cormorants and these two male merganser ducks which kept their eyes on me as I paddled on past. The cormorants got nervous and flew off making a bunch of noise.
Just past them this pair of mallard ducks were walking fairly fast to get into the water for protection. I paddled on by and they didn’t fly off.
There were three crows feeding on the shoreline eating something I couldn’t see. Here’s one of them.
Eventually Steve caught up with me and we headed down the channel on the back side of Penny Island heading for the lower end, where Steve decided to go in for the day.
Headed towards the open river’s mouth
I headed on down towards the mouth which looked like this as I paddled along.
I could see and hear the ocean was rough. This was my view before I turned around and headed back in as it was almost six PM now.
I pulled my boat out and went on home for the day where I mostly took it easy for the rest of the day, doing a little puttering on the old tractor I’m working on, but not much.
I sat around the yard until it started to get dark and went on in for 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.
