When I was walking on the seaside road this late afternoon I saw fishermen were setting up the red nets into the water to fish Iseebi (Japanese lobster).
Winter is the best season for lobster fishing in Japan.
They may be able to get a lot of lobsters after hauling up the net tomorrow early morning.
Are you coming to Shimoda by car? or do you like walking?
It was very beautiful day again, so I walked on the beach and went to Ogasaki Wing.
This is a very good view points which has a gorgeous landscape with the Pacific Ocean, Izu Seven Islands, and Shirahama Beach.
It takes about an hour by walking from Pension Sakuraya.
If you take route #135, you should stop at this point and take a break.
You can see 14 pictures which I took today on our Facebook. Click here !!
We had a little cold wind, but it was beautiful day again here in Shimoda today.
I walked on the seaside road and went to Mt. Nesugata in Shimoda after several months, and I took some pictures on the top of mountain.
This point has very good view of Shimoda harbor.
I took my daughter to Shimoda city by my car and took pictures on the seaside road.
And I walked along the sea this late afternoon.
I posted 8 pictures on my Facebook today.
I went to the nearest shrine "Shirahama shrine" this afternoon.
They had already been ready for the new year.
A lot of people come to this shrine during new year holidays to pray happiness, joy and good luck.
By the way, we were taken care of last year.
I hope the new year finds you in excellent spirit.
I went to Tsumekizaki-cape yesterday, where the daffidil flower festival has been taking place since December 20th.
We had very strong north wind there but we could see the beautiful scenery under the blue sky.
The daffodil blooming is now about 50%, and it's much earlier than usual.
The good time to see the flowers is usually after the middle of January, but the next new year holidays will be the best timing, I guess.
When I was cleaning the guest rooms this late afternoon I found out the clouds in the east sky was getting colored red at the sun set time.
So I went to the beach to take pictures in a hurry.
Then I was able to see the gorgeous sunset today.
By the way, I got a Christmas card 3 days ago from our friends who live in the United States and stayed at Pension Sakuraya just once several years ago.
Actually this is the only one Christmas card that we got this year. Because most of us, Japanese don't have a custom like this and because we have to prepare the new year cards in this season every year.
We are appreciated very much….
We didn't have strong wind and it was very warm this morning.
I was able to see the beautiful sunrise here in Shimoda.
The beach cleaning was taken place by the local community of Shirahama from 6:30 AM this morning, so I went to the nearest beach.
After that, I remained on the beach to take pictures of the sunrise and the surfing.
We didn't have strong wind and it was very warm today.
Have you ever seen this?
I took these pictures in Amagi mountain in Izu peninsula in the rain yesterday.
For us Japanese Wasabi is very important to eat Sashimi.
They were just harvesting Wasbi in the field when I went to Amagi mountain yesterday, so I asked them to take pictures of Wasbi.