Do you know what this is ?
Have you ever seen this ?
Today when I came back from Shimoda, I found this at Shimoda port.
It seemed like a building or factory, but I found a character "Sand" and "Cement" on it.
Yes, this is a ship of cement factory floating on the sea.
Off course I saw it for the 1st time…..
It was sunny and beautiful today after 1 week.
From today I started to walk in the morning with my children again.
After saying good bye I went toward the mountain "Takane san" in Shirahama.
This is a photo that I took on the way to this mountain…..
Today I went to a restaurant "B Deck Cafe" in Minami Izu, near Rape blossoms field.
This restaurant’s owner is a fisherman, so they provide many kinds of Italian foods, and these are not expensive.
This is a Carpaccio of local fish "Isaki".
Yes, it is very good.
They have some set menus and aracartes. I am introducing other foods…..
Have you ever had "Ochazuke"?
This is a traditional Japanese cooking.
We usually make it with, for example, rice, sea urchin, Umeboshi and green tea.
But today I used more garnishes for today’s our dinner, dried fish, Konbu, Wasabi, small rice puff and Dashi soup.
It was really good ! …..
Have you ever seen these flowers ?
This flower is "Fuji", "Wistaria" in English.
In Japan we can see these flowers in April and May.
And we have some festival of this tree in many places in Japan.
By the way today’s my son "Yuuki"…..
Last night we had a very strong rain in Shirahama.
That’s why big waves brought a lot of seaweeds to the beach.
I found that a small river appeared by rain on the street in front of our Pension this morning.
The TV news program said that some roads were prohibited in Minami Izu…..
After our guests checked out, we usually clean a guestroom.
Today, when I was cleaning this guestroom, my son, Yuuki, came to this room as usual.
I think that he just wanted to play with me.
But actually he wants to touch and move everything in a guest room, so I always ask him to bring something in stead……
Today was Sunday.
My daughters were in a holiday, so we went to Sotorura beach between Shirahama and Shimoda with my son.
This beach is in a creek and there is a parking lot in front of this beach.
Especially we can use it without parking charge except busy season.
When we arrived at this beach, there is a family who were enjoying a sea kayak.
After parking our car my daughters went to the beach soon.
My son, Yuuki, started to walk toward the beach slowly, and when he reached near the waves his sisters have already been playing in the water.
Then my son continued to walk toward the waves, but……
Have you ever seen these dried fishes ?
These are "Jack Mackerel", "Aji" in Japanese.
Today we, family, went to Shimoda for shopping and found these dried fishes in a supermarket.
These are home made dried fishes…..
From today, fresh children started to go to school by walking as a first day of new year.
My daughter, Akari, is a reader of group of children who live in our area.
This is not a reason that I thought, but I decided to go to the school with them after long time.
It was sunny this morning, so I was very happy to walk.
After getting to the school I said good bye, and I continued to walk toward Kawazu town.
After all I reached to the end of Shirahama Chuou beach, and took this picture from top of a hill.
From this place we can see "Shimoda Prince Hotel" on the right side of this picture, and today I went back to my home walking along the beach……