Today it was sunny and very warm here in Shimoda, so I went for walking.
I took this photo at the tip of Mihogasaki cape.
It takes about 20 minutes by walking from Sakuray.
As the air was very clear I was able to get the beautiful scenary with Izu seven islands on pacific ocean.
Of course we can see Shirahama beach on the other side.
This season it is very good for walking, because we can take good photos of the ocean and the naturre.
I went to the kindergarten to pick my son up by walking this afternoon.
On the way to our home we went to the nearest beach "Shirahama" to play.
Today it was sunny again and the water was blue and gorgeous.
My son was excited with the waves on the beach.
After he will get into the primary school we will not be able to together after school like this.
I think I would be sad…… .
I took this photo at around 7:30 am at the different place from yesterday.
It was sunny this morning, and there was no big cloud in the sky.
That's why I was able to take a photo with shinning sun and there was a golden road on the sea.
Do you see the island under the sun?
That's called "Toshima" island.
It takes about 1 hour and 35 minutes by ship from Shimoda harbor.
Do you know what the circumference of that island is?
It is only 8 kilometers and only 300 people live there.
80 % of that island is covered with camellia trees and the amount of production of camellia oil is best in Japan.
There is no beach in that island, so the most popular sports are diving and fishing.
Would you like to go there?
There was an article on the snow in Shimoda yesterday in the newspaper this morning.
I was thinking we had snow at all places in Shimoda, but the paper said the snow lay only 2 centimeters in the coastlands between Shirahama and Shimoda.
I took this photo on the way home at around 7:00 am when I took my daughter to the junior high school by car this morning.
It was really cold this morning too.
Today my wife went to the next prefecture by train, so I took here to the station early this morning.
At that time we had black cloud in the sky, but it had not been rainy yet.
But we had snow after that.
I didn't notice it, because I had been in my room and the screen had been closed.
When I went shopping at around 9:00 am it has already been sunny, and I found out the snow on the island over the ocean.
They have snow some times during cold season every year, but it is earlier than usual.
I went to bed earlier than usual last night, but I overslept this morning again. Hahaha….
So I went to school to take my daughter by car.
When I came back to Shirahama beach I took this photo.
The sun has just rose above the horizen, and the light of the sun made a long golden road on the sea.
Where can I go to on that road?
My daughters usually go to school by bus every day, but I overslept this morning. So I took them by car.
When I was coming back home I was going to take photos of Shirahama beach as usual.
When the weather is good and the air is clear we can see Mt. Amagi over Shirahama beach.
But I found out that the mountains were white this morning.
I thought it was cloud on the mountains at first, but actually it was snow.
Wao!! We usually have snow after January in Izu peninsula, but we had the first snow on this season this moring.
That's why it was very cold this morning in shimoda.
My daughters usually go to school by bus every morning, but I took them by car this morning. Because….
When I waked up at around 6:00 am it was rainy and windy outside.
I opend the screen to see outside there was strong wind blowing with heavy rain.
After breakfast I went to school with my daughters. when I was driving on the seaside road I was able to see the blue sky in the east sky.
"Yes, it will be sunny this afternoon as the weather forcast said".
But I suddenly had heavy rain again, because there still was a black cloud in the west sky.
It became sunny and very hot at all after that, it was amazing day today.
Have you ever seen this flower?
This morning I went for waling to the next beach "Sotoura."
When I departed from Sakuraya at 9:00 am it was very warm, so it was very comfortable for walking today.
At the view point of Sotoura I found out the red flowers.
Do you know this?
This is an aloe.
In Shimoda we don't have any snow, so this aloe can have flowers in winter.
It has been very hot here in Shimoda since one week ago.
The sun rises at around 4:50 every morning, and it makes my room very very very hot!!
So I wake up at around 5:00 am every day because of its heat.
I went to the top of mountain behind Pension Sakuraya and took this photo.
There were a lot of people on Shirahama Beach.
I want to get into that water to make my body cool down!