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Today it was rainny and cloudy, and I didn't take a photo.
So I introduce one of Onsen of Izu peninsula.
This is a "Oodaru", a biggest fall of Kawazu Seven Falls.
In this local area they call a fall "Taru"or "Daru" in Japanese, so Severn Falls is called "Nanadaru".
There is a Japanese style Ryokan "Amagisou" near this fall. And they have a big field of Onsen "Rotenburo" which anybody can take......
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In Japan, we, Japanese set up "Koinobori", Carp shaped flags, from April to the early month of May.
Koinobori are flown traditionally to celebrate "Children's Day" takes place on May 5th.
We, Japanese decorate Koinobori to pray that sons or grand sons grow up healty and strong.
According to the story of china, when the carp finishes climbing up the waterfall it become a dragon at the dragongate.
So Japanese parents hung Koinobori up in the sky for children rise up like a dragon in the future.
Last year it was a first time of Children's Day for my son, so his grand father bought it for him.....
There are a lot of kinds of flowers blooming around our Pension.
This flower is one of them called "Tatsunamisou" in Japanese.
As these cute flowers seems "Nami" (waves) this flower is called Tatsu-nami-sou.
In these days it is a little cool in the night and early morning.
I took a walk as usual this morning and went to "Itado port" in the northern area of Shirahama.
And I found some people were working there.
I took this photo at 7:30am.
The pink things in this photo are nets to get "Ise Ebi".
The fisher men usually set these nets in the bottom of sea in the afternoon, and next day.....
Today I went to meet my friend living in Rendaiji town in Shimoda.
When I passed by my car near a small park in this town, the green leaves were shining under the sun.
In Shimoda the spring had already come, so a lot of trees in the city and the mountains have green leaves.
In this park there were an old man and children playing together.
After that, I went to Shirahama beach......
Recently my son, Yuuki, became to be able to do many kinds of things.
Today, when I went to the kitchen he was doing something using a pan and a lit.
I was watching him for a while, he seemed to cook something with pan.
Yes, he is good at using these tools. And then he said ......
Today my daughters had a class of classical ballet in Shimoda, so my son and me went to Shimoda harbor to spend a time.
This is a landing monument of "Commodore Matthew C. Perry".
In 1854 his squardon came to Shimoda to investigate weather it could supply the water, charcoal and other materials needed by American vessels.....
I have heard that we can take a beautiful picture of clouds in Shimoda especially.
In this early morning it was silent and no windy in Shirahama but we had a strong wind after around 9:00am.
That's why the air was very clear and we could see great Amagi mountains.
White clouds was floating in a blue sky.....
As usual I went out from Sakuraya with my children who go to school at 6:50am.
On the way to the beach I found a beautiful scene.
I could see Izu Oshima islannd over the shinning sea.
The sun sometimes shows us a fantastic world.....
Last night and this morning we had strong rain in Shirahama, but after noon it became sunny and warm.
We could see a blue sea after a long time.
Yes, it was beauriful under the sunshine.
In the beach there were some people who were walking, surfing and sleeping on the sand....
Do you know what this is ?
Have you ever seen this ?
Today when I came back from Shimoda, I found this at Shimoda port.
It seemed like a building or factory, but I found a character "Sand" and "Cement" on it.
Yes, this is a ship of cement factory floating on the sea.
Off course I saw it for the 1st time.....
It was sunny and beautiful today after 1 week.
From today I started to walk in the morning with my children again.
After saying good bye I went toward the mountain "Takane san" in Shirahama.
This is a photo that I took on the way to this mountain.....
Today I went to a restaurant "B Deck Cafe" in Minami Izu, near Rape blossoms field.
This restaurant's owner is a fisherman, so they provide many kinds of Italian foods, and these are not expensive.
This is a Carpaccio of local fish "Isaki".
Yes, it is very good.
They have some set menus and aracartes. I am introducing other foods.....
Have you ever had "Ochazuke"?
This is a traditional Japanese cooking.
We usually make it with, for example, rice, sea urchin, Umeboshi and green tea.
But today I used more garnishes for today's our dinner, dried fish, Konbu, Wasabi, small rice puff and Dashi soup.
It was really good ! .....
Have you ever seen these flowers ?
This flower is "Fuji", "Wistaria" in English.
In Japan we can see these flowers in April and May.
And we have some festival of this tree in many places in Japan.
By the way today's my son "Yuuki".....
Last night we had a very strong rain in Shirahama.
That's why big waves brought a lot of seaweeds to the beach.
I found that a small river appeared by rain on the street in front of our Pension this morning.
The TV news program said that some roads were prohibited in Minami Izu.....
After our guests checked out, we usually clean a guestroom.
Today, when I was cleaning this guestroom, my son, Yuuki, came to this room as usual.
I think that he just wanted to play with me.
But actually he wants to touch and move everything in a guest room, so I always ask him to bring something in stead......
Today was Sunday.
My daughters were in a holiday, so we went to Sotorura beach between Shirahama and Shimoda with my son.
This beach is in a creek and there is a parking lot in front of this beach.
Especially we can use it without parking charge except busy season.
When we arrived at this beach, there is a family who were enjoying a sea kayak.
After parking our car my daughters went to the beach soon.
My son, Yuuki, started to walk toward the beach slowly, and when he reached near the waves his sisters have already been playing in the water.
Then my son continued to walk toward the waves, but......
Have you ever seen these dried fishes ?
These are "Jack Mackerel", "Aji" in Japanese.
Today we, family, went to Shimoda for shopping and found these dried fishes in a supermarket.
These are home made dried fishes.....
From today, fresh children started to go to school by walking as a first day of new year.
My daughter, Akari, is a reader of group of children who live in our area.
This is not a reason that I thought, but I decided to go to the school with them after long time.
It was sunny this morning, so I was very happy to walk.
After getting to the school I said good bye, and I continued to walk toward Kawazu town.
After all I reached to the end of Shirahama Chuou beach, and took this picture from top of a hill.
From this place we can see "Shimoda Prince Hotel" on the right side of this picture, and today I went back to my home walking along the beach......
In spring, we, Japanese have many imagination about it, but one of them is "Strawberry".
In Izu peninsula there are some places where we can pick strawberrys to eat in a farm.
But the nearest place is Minami Izu, "South area of Izu", about 30 minutes by car from Shirahama.
We have ever been there for 2 times until now, I'm going to show you some pictures that I took there from my computer.....
It was sunny today too.
But as the air was not clear we couldn't see Izu seven islands and the sea was not beautiful like yesterday.
We were right to go to the beach yesterday.
By the way it was very warm today, so my daughter, my son and me took peas in our field.
These peas are really different from peas sold in a supermarket.......
After shopping in Shimoda town we went to the beach "Kujuppama" today.
This beach is very close from Tsumekizaki cape in Suzaki peninsula.
It takes about 10 minutes by car from Shirahama.
We have been living in Shirahama for 13 years, but we had never been this beach.
Today we could see a beautiful sea in Shirahama, so we decided to go Kujuppama.
We parked our car in a free parking lot near this beach, and went down a path to get there .....
Last night we had a really strong storm in Shirahama.
But I guess that the storm brought everything, today's Shirahama beach was so beautiful !!
When we went to Shimoda town to go shopping I took this picture from bus stop "Shirahama Kaigan" on route 135......
It was rainny today and I couldn't take a photo outside.
So I post a picuture of Sakura that I took a few days ago.
This place is Sakura path along the river "Inouzawa-gawa" in Shimoda.
When I went there it was very cold, and there was nobody.
But I could find only one group who were drinking under the cherry blossoms......
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My daughters had a class of classical ballet today, and after that, we sent to the beach.
There were many people who were walking, running, and sleeping.
When we had arrived at the beach my children started to play with ball and racket....
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