Today my daughter had a game of ping pong at junior high school in Minami Izu town, so I took her with my son.
During her games, as we had 3 hours my son and I drove to southern part of Izu peninsula.
We saw the fisherman left for Ise ebi fishing from small fisherman's port.
They put the lobster net in the sea from now and will pull up them at around 4 or 5 AM tomorrow.
The period of lobster fishing is between September and May in Izu peninsula.
Today we had strong west wind here in Shimoda.
When I went shopping I took this picture on the way to the beach.
We could see clear bule sea and Izu Oshima Island over the ocean.
From this season we sometimes have cold west wind, and we can see the boats which come to this sea to protect them from the strong wind.
Becuase they have more than 30 or 40 m/s wind at around Irozaki cape.
Too dangerous for them it is!
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.
I am a member of Izu Shirahama Tourist association.
Today we went to Itado area in Shirahama to clean up the Aloe field.
There are a lot of Aloe on a hill, and we can see Shirahama beach from this hill.
The Aloe festival will take place from December 9th.
This field is one of good points for the pictures, because the contrast of blue cloor of sea and red one of Aloe is very gorgeous.
Why don't you come to Shirahama to see it?
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I have been thinking that I was going to go to the Togai-hama Beach to take photos since 3 days ago.
When I served the breakfast our customer this morning he said,
"Where is the good point for snorkeling?"
I told him some points in Shimoda, but I said to him,
"Oh, are you interested in snorkeling? I was going to go to the one of good points by accident, actually. Do you go with me? As we don't have any other customeres today I can take you there by my car".
After breakfast we went to Togai-hama together by my car.
It was amazing point for snorkeling! we could meet a lot of fishes and found out the stingray as well!
Of course I could take a lot of good photos for our website.
It was very hot here in Shimoda today, so I decided to go to Suzaki area for snorkeling.
It takes about 15 mintutes by car from Pension Sakuraya.
There is a small island called Ebisujima.
There are some good snorkeling points around this island.
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Today it was very beautiful day and very hot here in Shimoda.
when I went to the super market to buy icecreams with my son we went to the beach to take photos.
There were some people on the beach and the blue water was shinning under the sun.
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Pension Sakuraya in Shirahama, Shimoda
Today it was the best day in these 10 days in Shirahama.
When I was cooking in the kitchen this morning the sunshine which I saw through the window was really different from last 10 days.
At around 12:00 I went to the nearest beach "Shirahama" to take pictures.
There were white clouds floating in the blue sky, and white sand and blue sea were shining under the sky.
Yes, the great summer was back here in Shirahama again.
They are inviting you!!
Have you ever been to Shimoda?
White sandy beach, blue sea and Izu Oshima Island on the horizon…..
It takes about only 3 or 4 hours to get there from Tokyo.
And you can get an amazing scenery like this!
Unbelivable!!
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Yesterday the rainy season was over here in Tokai area in Japan, and today it was over in Kanto area too.
I was wondering that the rainy season had been over yesterday, because it was almost cloudy here in Shimoda.
But summer has come to Shimoda at last.
When I was cleaning the guest rooms I could see the blue sea through the window.
So I decided to go to the beach to take pictures.
I took this on the way to the nearest beach "Shirahama" from Sakuraya.
Look at that gorgeous color of the sea!
It's amazing color, isn't it? ….