The best way to avoid work is to go kayaking on the river so I headed out to Jenner this morning. I put the boat in the water and paddled across the river and on up along here.
I went by these male mallard ducks feeding in the shallows.
I was thinking some wild blackberries would be nice but it might still be too soon but I went to shore here at Swamp Rock to have a look just the same.
I walked across here looking for ripe berries.
Swamp’s too wet
The swamp was still wet from the recent rains so I couldn’t go across here to the rock up on the hill side.
Very few ripe berries
I hunted around and there weren’t many ripe berries yet. I did find this one patch of them and lots of them on the way.
I walked up along the river’s edge on the Poison Oak Alley trail for about a half mile looking for berries but not much luck.
Back on the water
I put the boat back in the water and jumped in and headed on up the river about a mile or so going by this area.
I went by this momma mallard with her little ones feeding along the river’s edge and pulled in to the shoreline and sat and watched in my boat for a bit.
River biologists
I knew the river biologists were on the river taking samples because their trucks were in the parking lot and saw them up the river pulling in their net to check what’s in the water swimming around.
Eventually I turned and started my paddle back down the river along it’s edge and stopped in this spot.
I could see this truck up on the hill across from me with the cattle but couldn’t tell what he was doing up there.
I stopped by these old redwood logs for a bit.
I’m headed back in to Jenner for the day and went on home.
Once home a nap was in order then I went outside and hung around the yard chair hopping for the rest of the day. I noticed this big red rose was looking good.
A day off working and playing on the river sure sound like fun.
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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.
A day off working and playing on the river sure sound like fun.