A Letter from Blue Sky and Sea - Izu Shimoda Photo Diary

Summer ! Beach ! Shirahama !

It was very hot today too, but more humid than yesterday.

"Ok ! Let's go to the beach, baby !!"

I went to the nearest beach, "Shirahama Ohama" with my son, Yuuki this afternoon.
(Actually I wanted to take a beautiful picture of beach too.)

When we arrived at the beach we could see that most of people wearing the swim suit were swimming.......

I found it in the train !!

In these days we had sunny days like a summer in Shirahama, but it was very humid today.

By the way I took this picture from inside Izukyu train.

This train was going toward Rendaiji station after this tunnel.

When I came from Nagoya to Shimoda station on June 24th, I found it in this train.......

Happy Birthday, Mam !!

This month is my wife's birthday, so my daughter had been saying for a long time "I want to make a cake for Mam!".

But we were very vusy in these days, so we could do it today.

Look at this cake !

On the top of cake my daughter wrote "Happy Birthday !" in Japanese by choco pencil......

A preparation for summer !!

In these days we are preparing many things for this summer !

Today I cleaned up the floor of kitchen to work in a clean place.

I am going to clean up the refregerator tomorrow.

Pension Sakuraya in Shirahama beach, Shimoda, Japan

Sunflower and plums

At last the first sunflower in our garden bloomed.

Every year we can see this flower from this season, so when we find it we feel that a summer is coming soon.

By the way I got plums in our garden today.

We have 3 plum trees there but one of them didn't have many plums .......

Summer day, today !!

Today it was really hot !!
When I was standing in the beach I was dizzy a little.

By the way "All Japan Students Championship" finished today.
This picture is its ending ceremony.
Unfortunatly in these 3 days it was rainny yesterday and they didn't have good condition of waves.

When I was taking pictures a couple was near the beachside.....

All Japan Student Surfing Championship

From today "35th All Japan Students Surfing Championship" is taking place at Shirahama beach for 3 days.

Last nigh it was strong rainny but almost cloudy today.

However the condition was not so good.
In this morning when the openning ceremony held it seeded good wave, but after that the wave was smaller and smaller. ......

You want to write anything ?

Next month my son will be 1 year and 10 month.

Recently he wants to write something on a paper.

"What are you doing, yuuki ?"

Sometimes he asks his sister to prepare a paper on a table and writes some pictures.

 

Miso soup with vegitable meat ball

Our son, Yuuki, eats every foods, but it depends on his mind and condition.

For example , when he is sleepy he eats nothing or sometimes only rice.

So today's my mission is "Vegitable meat ball for my son".

I prepared many kind of foods from a refrigerator..... .

Sunny day during rainny season

I was going to post this phot last night, but I couldn't do it. Because the internet server didn't work well.
So I would like to try to post it today again below,

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It was almost sunny today after a long time.
The temperature was higher and higher, so it was just summer !

In the beach there were some surfer, but they didn't have a good wave.
This weekend All Japan Students surfing championship will take place here in Shirahama.
But how will be the condition ? .....

Stock's aster and Lily

Have you ever seen these flowers ?

This flower is called "Sutokeshia" in Japanese, and "Stock's aster" in English.

This flower's origen is North America.
And as this flower is strong my aunt planted.

In Sakuraya's garden we can see many kinds of flowers, and I am going to show the another one... .

Changing net of window "Amido"

Now we are in the middle of June, so I started to repair and change the net of window after a long time.

This net window protect from the mosquito getting into the room.

We, Sakuraya, have a lot of these windows, so we do it by ourselves.
Yes, this is a reasonable way.

By the way when we change the nets we usually use one thing.
Do you know it ? ......

Sardine Cooking/Japanese style

Our guests who have been staying from last night came back from the sea and said,

"We won ! Look at these a looooot of fishes !"

Yes, they went to Shimoda for fishing and got a lot of sardines like this photo.

"Ok, I am going to cook these fishes for your dinner, because we have no other guests today !" I said.......

Biwa time, now !!

Have you ever seen this ?
Do you know what this is ?

This tree is a "Loquat", "Biwa" in Japanese.

We, Pension Sakuraya has this tree in our garden.
When my uncle built out Pension, he found this baby tree in Sakuraya's field. So he moved it a little.

After that this tree grew up bigger and bigger, and now we can eat this fruit every June....

Sunrise in Shirahama

This morning I could see a sunrise after a long time.

I took this picture from the window of Western style room on the 2nd floor at 4:50am.

Do you think that I got up early in this morning ?

No, I didn't get up so early, to tell the truth I didn't go to bed last night until then.

Because my computer doesn't work well in these days, so I started reset-up it last midnight.
And it took a long time to do it and data recovery.

By the way after I took this picture I went to the other room to take it..... .

While cleaning up I found it !!

Today the members of Shirahama Tourist association cleaned up Aloe field in Itado area of Shirahama.

In the morning it was windy and cool, but after we started to clean up I became very hot.

When we finished to do it 2 hours later this field became very beautiful.

By the way I found something to see for the 1st time there .....

Hydrangea Festival in Shimoda

The hydrangea Festival that is held at Shimoda park is taking place this year too.

This is a signboard that I took in front of Shimoda station.
This boad says to travellers about events of Shimoda all the year, and this time it advertises Ajisai (hydrangea) Festival takes place from June 1st to 30th.

I am going to show you today's hydrangea brossoms in the garden of Sakuraya....

Fureai no Mori in Inatori town

"Let's go to the long slide this afternoon !"

After checking out of our guest I said so.

My children of course agreed with me, so we went a park in Inatori is called "Fureai no mori" after I finished to clean up the guest room.

In this park there are many kinds of trees, playground equipments and observatory.

Naturally our main purpose was a long slide.
The length of this slide is 50 meters.

From the top of this slide we can see a beautiful view of Inatori town, pacific ocean and Izu seven islands.

As soon as we got there my daughter started to slide down, but it didn't work well.....

From the students of the United States.....

Last month, May, we had guests of students from the United States, and they gave us the student papaer of their program about Japan.

Today I put the 1st page copied of this paper with their signatures on the wall at the entrance of Sakuraya's building.

And one more thing, a girl of this group gave us a paper with an illustration of "Cat Bus" of the movie "Totoro" and a self portrait(?) of her.

Thank you my friends, we appreciate it.
We really look forward to meeting you someday again !!

Sand Art in the beach

Today the students of Shirahama primary school had a Sand Art festival in Shirahama beach.

They made many kinds of Sand Art separating some groups.

A group of my daughters made "Nimo", a hero of the movie "Nimo", and they won a victory.

I couldn't go to see today because of my job, but my wife took this picture by her mobile phone, so this picture is very small.

It was hot today too !

There is a small cape between Shimoda and Shirahama.

We can walk to the top of this cape through a small path from Route 135, it takes about 3 minutes by walking.

From here we can see Amagi mountains, Shirahama beach, Suzaki peninsula, Izu seven islands and beautiful view.
When I went to this cape to clean up today, I took this picture of Suzaki peninsula......