By Air, By Water - Multitasking

Today was another special day for 2024. Yesterday I put my dock in the river. That meant today I could put my Old Town Pack canoe on the water.

Yes, i could paddle the Pack without the dock in. But, to avoid scuffing it up, I prefer to enter and leave the canoe from the dock. Low water levels can make that challenging, but so far I have not fallen in. More importantly, new scuff marks are not being added to the canoe!

While on the water I added a task to my outing. For some time I have been thinking about photographing paddlers on the water using my drone. Since I was paddling alone, selfie pics were my only option.

I am happy to report my process seemed to work. My flights took off and landed at the dock while I was on the water. Small twigs around the dock were avoided and the shiny reflections of the water did not interfere with my downward obstacle sensor.

Now I have to learn to catch the drone in the air so I can take off and land on my hand while on the water. Since the drone does not have legs I am more apprehensive to grab it while in flight. I have done it a time or two, but am not confident enough to attempt an in-flight landing/grab while in my canoe. I just don’t want those spinning blades to connect with my flesh. I may be sensitive that way.

As you can see, I attempted to selfie styles - close and further away. Both worked and it was easy.