Yesterday the weather forecast said it would be colder, but it was not so cold today actually.
However we could see the Izu Oshima Island clearly from Sakuraya on the hill because the air, the sky and everything is getting into winter.
After school I went to pick up my son and went to the beach together.
This is "Shirahama Chuo Beach" next to "Shirahama Ohama Beach" which is the nearest one.
My son and I walked on the beach for a while. ( The small person in this picture is my son!)
Yesterday we had strong wind and heavy rain here in Shimoda.
It was almost typhoon, but we didn't have any problem with it.
Today the weather was changed!
We could see the blue sky and sea this morning, so I decided to go to the nearest beach "Shirahama" with my son this afternoon.
Today my son finished school at 2:30 PM.
As usual I went to pick up my son after school, and went to the beach together.
We played making art of shadow and hand writing on the sand.
It was fun!
This week and next week we have birthdays of my daughters, so we had a party tonight.
My first daughter has turned seventeen and my second daughter will turn fourteen next week.
"Time flies like an arrow"
They are getting older very soon.
I show you the pictures which I took on the beach today here.
On last Friday I went to Toi town in Izu city, on the other side of Izu peninsula, with my wife and her friends.
Long time ago there used be a lot of gold mine in this peninsula, but Toi gold mine was the largest one.
We can get into the mine by walking and there are museum and suvenir shops.
Here is a web page of this gold mine museum, which I have just made tonight.
You can see all pictures on the web page on facebook album here.
Pension Sakuraya in Shimoda, Japan
Today my wife and I went to the Shirahama primary school.
We had a class observation of my son's class.
When we got to the school they were learning the living things of this season.
This week they are going to go outisede to explor and find out the plants and the bugs.
In this season we set up the fences on the beach.
Because we have strong north east wind between autumn and spring, and because we have to protect the sand on the beach from this wind.
Today we had a work to set up the fences from 7:00 AM.
In this early morning we had a heavy rain and stopped raining before work, but it began to rain again after we started to work.
However we finished to do it in the rain……
In last one week we have been very busy, so we could not go to the beach.
But today I went to the beach with my son after school.
At this point in the Shirahama beach there are a lot of flotsam, and Yuuki played with them.
Hello, how have you been?
This is Yuuki.
In this season we can see many kinds of fruit at the super market in Japan.
Today my grand mother who lives in Miyazaki sent us these fruits.
This is a Pear, but this pear is bigger than the other kind of pear in Japan.
The flavor is like grape and very sweet.
Thank you, grand ma!
Today it was sunny after 3 days, but we had a cold horth wind.
I watched TV news this evening and they said they had first snow of this season in Hokkaido today.
That7s why it was a little cold here in Shimoda.
But the weather forecast says it will be sunny this weekend.
By the way I went to the nearest beach called Shirahama Beach with my son after school.
There were some surfers in the water but nobody was swimming today.