We woke today to the soft sound of passing trains from our 10th floor room overlooking the station. After breakfast we set out towards Mijajimaguchi on the train, from where we would catch a ferry over to the island.
Once ashore we walked out of the terminal face to face with my mortal enemy, the Japanese deer. I went to say hello, but it grabbed a corner of the map I was holding and started chewing on it. Looking less than impressed I backed away slowly, lest it have more of my map of the island. The photo below wasn't taken of my map, but another group of tourists who had suffered the same fate.
At this point it started raining. Slightly unfortunately for us, I'd not looked at the local forecast for over 24 hours and was going on the last look, suggesting sunshine all day. Sadly for me, my personal raincloud was hovering. It had clearly seen me pack suncream this morning in my day bag.
We proceed to walk around the 5 story pagoda and then the water temple, even though we were still an hour or so from high tide. As we are on neaps at the moment, the tide may not have flooded the temple area even if we had waited for it. The temple stands behind the most famous sight of the island, the floating gate. It is here that Rolf is pictured today.
We then made our way through the rain to the Aquarium. Here we saw lots of fish (can you tell I'm tired and want to stop writing yet?), I patted a penguin and we both took lots of photos of very cute short clawed otters. On exiting this was walked back through the rain and located the 'Hall of Treasures'. 30 seconds later we'd seen aforementioned treasures and were back heading for the ferry home. This took us through the tat bizarre streets, each shop was selling exactly the same as the one next door, for the same price. It was rather odd, they had the same stock, just laid out in a different way.
In the middle of this was a big spoon.
From there we were back to the ferry and train to the hotel. We ate out in the station tonight, having "the famous Japanese pancake". So famous in fact, that neither Emily or I had heard of it.
Now we sit drinking beer in the hotel room looking at the lights shining in the windows.
Tomorrow will mostly be spent sat on a train.
I'm not sure I'll have internet connectivity until I get home. IF not, I'll post everything on arrival home on Monday. For now, tata.
Once ashore we walked out of the terminal face to face with my mortal enemy, the Japanese deer. I went to say hello, but it grabbed a corner of the map I was holding and started chewing on it. Looking less than impressed I backed away slowly, lest it have more of my map of the island. The photo below wasn't taken of my map, but another group of tourists who had suffered the same fate.
At this point it started raining. Slightly unfortunately for us, I'd not looked at the local forecast for over 24 hours and was going on the last look, suggesting sunshine all day. Sadly for me, my personal raincloud was hovering. It had clearly seen me pack suncream this morning in my day bag.
We proceed to walk around the 5 story pagoda and then the water temple, even though we were still an hour or so from high tide. As we are on neaps at the moment, the tide may not have flooded the temple area even if we had waited for it. The temple stands behind the most famous sight of the island, the floating gate. It is here that Rolf is pictured today.
We then made our way through the rain to the Aquarium. Here we saw lots of fish (can you tell I'm tired and want to stop writing yet?), I patted a penguin and we both took lots of photos of very cute short clawed otters. On exiting this was walked back through the rain and located the 'Hall of Treasures'. 30 seconds later we'd seen aforementioned treasures and were back heading for the ferry home. This took us through the tat bizarre streets, each shop was selling exactly the same as the one next door, for the same price. It was rather odd, they had the same stock, just laid out in a different way.
In the middle of this was a big spoon.
From there we were back to the ferry and train to the hotel. We ate out in the station tonight, having "the famous Japanese pancake". So famous in fact, that neither Emily or I had heard of it.
Now we sit drinking beer in the hotel room looking at the lights shining in the windows.
Tomorrow will mostly be spent sat on a train.
I'm not sure I'll have internet connectivity until I get home. IF not, I'll post everything on arrival home on Monday. For now, tata.
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