Just weeks until we should be relaxing on North Beach. It is not looking good. The beach remains a mess with the work continuing on the neighbors’ shoreline. Below is my drone video from today, with a few photos at the very bottom.
As a bonus video, here is the a view of the erosion just north of the pier. I had planned to go further north, but I briefly lost connection with the drone twice… as you can see when the drone pauses.
Superb shots just north from the pier. I saw when the drone stopped short; what does your remote do at that point? Very interested in all this. Obviously, most people closer to the pier are safe from the high water — so I am very reassured! But closer to North Shore Park, ouch! Pretty bad. You are terrific.
I got a message saying “weak signal” and to adjust the antennas… then the screen went blank. Blank because this is a lower definition video transmitted by wifi to my controller/iPhone. The higher definition video is recorded onboard the drone so it keeps recording… but I could no longer see. I let up on the joysticks, then turned the drone a quarter turn, and finally the video came back. If the signal had not come back, the drone would have returned back to me automatically because it triangulates the exact location of the drone and “home” by using multiple GPS satellites.
What I have not figured out yet, is why I lost the signal. I should easily be able to run from the pier all the way well past North Beach.