Monday November 4, 2019 Russian River, Guerneville CA.
Russian River kayak
John and his brother Ray and I were going to a shuttle down from Steelhead Beach to Guerneville today. I drove down to Ray’s house where we loaded our boats and gear into Ray’s truck. We dropped John’s truck off were we would get out and Ray drove his truck up to Steelhead Beach where we put in our boats. Ray’s wife drove his truck back home. I think we put in just after eleven.
Steelhead beach put in
Here we are just after putting our boats in the water headed down stream slowly drifting along. Ray’s in the lead in yellow and John is following.
John’s been fishing and doing river stuff most of his life so he’s very comfortable on the river as you can see. Real nice fall day.
Drifting along
Just drifting along past that big redwood stump.
The Scrounger
Being on the river all the time John is a habitual scrounger and checks out anything that catches his eye. You just never know what little goodie you might find. In this picture he spotted an orange float. As he was retrieving it, it was hooked to more fishing line and there were a bunch of other fishing goodies attached to the line. It’ sorta like a treasure hunt. I do my share. :O)
Hacienda Bridge
This was originally a train bridge before there was a road for cars. Now no train but lots of cars.
Just coming into the Summer Home Park area.
And going by the Odd Follows area.
We saw a few birds including this great blue heron getting some sun.
Great day
As we were nearing the Guerneville area the sun was getting low in the sky.
Sun bathing turtles
We saw some turtles getting some sun. Here’s a couple of them.
Beggars
And these mallard ducks tried to hit us up for some goodies.
The town of Guerneville is just up ahead where we are headed.
Guerneville Beach
This is the spot we are going to take our boats out at the Guerneville Beach by the summer dam where the truck is waiting on the other side of the locked gate.
While John and Ray carried their boat up the hill on the beach and got the truck I waited here below the old Guerneville Bridge looking back up the river where we came from.
That was a nice thing to do on a sunny fall day. Almost no one else on the river this time of year, great.
Nice paddle, Nice day. Thanks guys.
