My brother Mike came over this morning to get some help mounting his truck racks on his truck so we worked on that for an hour or so.
Here’s Mike using a power hack saw to cut some metal for the project.
After that, we went for a little walk over to another brothers garden and then I was feeling a bit tired out, so I puttered around the house and yard for most of the rest of the day.
Headed out for an evening kayak
Around six PM, I headed down to Jenner for an evening kayak. There was a bunch of high fog as I drove into Jenner and put my boat in the water.
Sick sea lion
While I was putting my boat in the water, Johnny the kayak rental guy came by and told me about a young sea lion that didn’t seem to be doing too well down river on the way to the mouth.
I crossed the river to Penny Island and sat here for a bit. You can see it’s a bit overcast and only a couple of hours until dark.
As I continued paddling down the river, I went by this pair of mallard ducks resting in this spot.
Young sea lion
I found the young sea lion pretty much where Johnny said it would be. These young ones occasionally come into the estuary when they are sick and not doing too good. Things are a lot more peaceful in the river than out in the ocean.
I have no idea what’s wrong with this young sea lion? The fact one can get close to it is a sure sign, it’s not doing well.
Mother Nature will do her thing
I’ve learned to let mother nature take her course with wild type critters, so I left it to it’s fate. It didn’t seem to be doing as bad as some of them I’ve seen in the past.
River’s mouth is closed
I paddled over to the closed river’s mouth to have a look. These harbor seals are on the closed part of the mouth, with maybe a foot or so of sand to go before the river breaks over into the ocean again
You can see the sand is only about a foot higher than the river, with the ocean in the back ground which is at low tide right now.
I hung around the mouth area for a bit, then headed back up the river. I went up the back channel of Penny Island where I saw this cormorant and the crow on a dead tree log.
I pulled into this little channel on the upper end of Penny Island where I sat for awhile watching and taking it easy.
I watched these two male mallard ducks fighting it out for a bit, then this one did this victory dance and they seemed to get along after that.
I headed on over to the boat ramp from that spot. With the overcast, I knew I wasn’t going to see any sunset, so I didn’t wait around for that.
I took a look at the water level gauge at the visitor center. it reads almost six feet which shows the river is backing up with the closed mouth. It may break open around seven feet, but maybe not, only time will tell.
I pulled my boat out of the water and headed on home 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.
