Chilly January Paddle

The weather people predicted 68 degrees. Not quite! At 10 AM it was still around 51, warmed a bit, then a light breeze chilled it all off again. Still, bright sun and no real wind made for the best paddle I've had in months. Wait....the only paddle I've had in months! Was joined by one other person from Kayaker's Alliance, which has grown sort of dormant of late. I got to try out my new Railblaza mounting system at last. Got it for my birthday, but haven't had warm enough weather to want to go out in the boat. It works very well and exactly as advertised. Now that's a nice surprise! Beats the Gopro mounting systems and my DIY stuff. I'm still learning how to use it, but it's quite versatile. I was shy of drilling holes in my boat, but this makes for a more secure system, which is what I've needed. Allows me to get angles and change them pretty much at will, without worrying about losing the camera. So I'm happy with that. However, I cannot say that paddling in Foster City is making for dramatically different scenes. Ah well, I wasn't going to the Oscars anyway.

San Gregorio

Well, better than the last time we were at San Gregorio. Here's the old broken down road house/gas station:

Really big show!

A crowd of 21 painters signed up for today's painting meetup at Princeton Harbor! Not all showed, but some who didn't register did, so the group was large. Though some peeled off before our lunch debrief, all seemed very occupied with the variable lighting. An odd winter day, sort of warm mostly, cloudy, then sunny.
At acrylics again. Honestly, I used to work very well in acrylics, but am not at all satisfied with my work in that medium of late. Seem to have more trouble with thick paint, compared to the watercolor I've been doing mostly for a couple of decades now.
Well, here's the result anyway: