I figured there’d be a bunch more people on the river with the holiday, but the weather looked so good I decided to go kayaking anyway.
I drove off towards Jenner around noon today. There were a bunch of people down there alright, but once on the water most of them disappear.
Paddled up river
I headed up river and hung out in this spot by Paddy’s rock, the rock on the left.
Some grunting sounds
I was sitting in my boat by these bushes when I heard some grunting which I knew to be river otters. They were headed my way so I moved out into the river a bit so I could watch them go by in the bushes as they fed along the side. The otters are in the bushes here, coming my way.
I pushed in close and caught a couple of them.
Nothing like a good scratch
This one sure had some itches, reminded me of me scratching away.
The otters moved into the brush and went up on land and napped so I moved on back down the river past this spot called Eagle’s Landing. No eagles here today.
Another chance on life
I saw this little ripple up ahead which I knew to be from a honey bee, so I approached it and used my paddle to deposit it on the front of my boat. I forgot it as I went on my way. I presume it dried off and flew away. All I can say is I gave it another chance on life.
I headed over to Penny Island where I sat for a bit, by the big trees up ahead.
I went by this cormorant sunning.
Flock of feeding coots
And this flock of coots were diving and feeding on dead vegetation underwater.
I paddled down along the side of Penny Island to this spot where I stopped and watched. I could see the open mouth from here.
River’s mouth is open
Here a zoom down to the open river’s mouth into the ocean. Whether the mouth is open or closed is something the fishermen always want to know as when it’s open more big fish can get into the river to spawn which means more fish to possibly catch.
It was late in the day so the sun was headed down as I headed for the boat ramp.
Fishing in Monte Rio
I headed on home stopping in Monte Rio to see what the fishermen were up to.
Here’s the Monte Rio boat ramp with some fishermen getting their boats out of the water.
Here’s a couple fishermen that fished down from Guerneville today. It sounds like fishing is a bit on the slow side right now.
Sun’s behind the mountains
I shoot the bull with the fishermen for a bit then headed on home where the sun was already behind the mountains so it was a bit cool out.
I puttered around the yard a bit and put my van under the car port to set it up for some work this weekend.
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.
