I put my boat in the water at Jenner this morning. It was overcast, but the wind was down.
The river looked like this as I crossed over to Penny Island.
Since I’d been down to the river’s mouth the last two days, I headed up river instead today.
I went by this gall preening on an old log in the water.
Just past the gall, I paddled by this egret fishing in the shallows. It seemed to be catching some kind of little tiny fish.
I paddled up along here taking my time, stopping along the way.
The white pelicans keep moving up the river
I stopped here for a break. I could see the white pelicans fishing up the river where I was headed.
I continued to paddle along in the clam waters.
The white pelicans kept moving up the river a bit as I paddled along.
The pelicans were fishing right where I was going, but they moved out as I approached and I took their spot by the rock.
I sat here and just took it easy enjoying the day, watching the pelicans just up the river from me.
Checking out the birds along the shoreline
Eventually, the pelicans flew by and landed over by Paddy’s rock. I paddled across the river and started back down going by the pelicans at Paddy’s rock. There were a few cormorants there too.
And just past the pelicans, these cormorants were taking it easy on the gravel. Some flew off as I passed, but most stayed.
These merganser ducks were resting there too.
There’s usually a bunch of birds resting on this side of the river in this spot and that’s how it was today.
This egret was resting there too.
I was headed in and paddled down along the shoreline here towards Jenner.
I went by this great blue heron. It kept an eye on me, but didn’t fly away like I thought it would as I passed by fairly close. It wasn’t going to give up it’s spot and there’s the boat ramp just up ahead.
I pulled my boat out and went on home for a short nap.
Still working on the old van
After that, I went out and worked on the van some more. I cut this foam that my distributor came packed in to fill the gap by the engine compartment. It worked out well.
I then spent some time screwing down the floor boards under the carpet and also put a couple screws in the carpet to keep it in place.
I installed my cook stove and started to put things back in the van and that was pretty much my day.
An electric fan is on the way
I did order an electric fan for my radiator last night. I got a sixteen inch one that will fit inside my fan shroud, right in front of the engine fan. An advantage of an electric fan is they blow just as hard when the engine is going slow as when it’s going fast, so there is always plenty of air going through the radiator when it’s needed most. Once that comes in, I should have it all done.
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.
