Late April Along the Shore

Hey Peeps, it's been deja vu all over again here since the last post so let's get right to it:  (Only the details were changed).

Just like a regular summer afternoon here except 20-30 colder.

At least 1/2 the days recently been cloudy or rainy or both.  Chilly goes without saying.  A quarter or less are sunny, and over a quarter are sunny but windy.  That leaves precious few which are both sunny and calm.  Carpe diem!

Down at Duck Lake channel.  It was actually pretty windy/gusty (note the waves on the channel) and I probably shouldn't have been flying there and I even failed to record it but after a nail-clenching emergency landing I had to cross the bridge to retrieve the drone and this is how close to the water it ended up.  So I took this picture with my phone to document.

I also scouted out a couple of inland sites at a park and a power substation next to a farm field (which I probably shouldn't have been flying near) looking to get out of the wind.

Aftermath of using the drone to inspect the wind sock.

Worth carping about the weather most of the time for.

Ditto

On another windy (but sunny, eventually!) afternoon I decided to scout around the Muskegon river and lake shore both for kayaking and drone flying possibilities.  The thumbnail of this pic looks like a medieval English castle to me but of course it's actually a power plant.

Thanks to my logging research I can appreciate the significance of this memorial.

The Muskegon, like the White I saw a few weeks ago, is quite high right now.

Took this for a variety of reasons, including documenting the height of the river this day.

I love finding these super-rural feeling places which are just off the highway.

There's a nice walk/bike path right near here which could be fun to travel on at some point.

Any sign telling you how to reduce your PCB intake tells me not to eat the fish at all.

Continuing on into town for a fabulous Mexican dinner and a trip to the grocery store I passed a beautiful yard full of daffodils.

There's a fox just coming out onto the open sand patch in the middle distance of this picture.  There's a couple videos of him in the google album I've linked at the bottom of this post.

This was a rare still, but sunny, morning when I wanted to use the photo option to take a pic from above, with the camera pointing down.  It's possible I'm wearing out this poor drone (with number of crashes approaching triple digits, I expect) because now it seems to only we willing to ascend to about 50 feet, whereas originally I thought it was willing to go three times that high.  It may have something to do with the breeze, which is stronger higher up, of course, and the drone's brain may be smart enough (as it works to stabilize and hold gps coords) not to go any higher.  I will continue to try to reach old altitudes during still times.  One needs to be ready to pounce when those come up though.

The full picture set:

My YouTube Channel for drone videos: