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.....
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......
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......
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......
Today it was really warm and a beautiful day in Shirahama !
The air was very clear and we could see Amagi mountains and Izu Oshima island.
Besides the color of sea was just emerald green.
When I was taking pictures in the beach, some poeple came there and said.....
Yesterday our guest asked me that he is looking for a beach which he watched in a TV program and at the Osak train station.
So I went to take pictures for him today.
This is one of them "Itado port" in the north area of Shirahama.
There are many ships for fishing of Japanese spiny lobstar, top shell, squid, jack mackerel, alfonsino and etc.... .
When I went for shopping I went to "Shirahama Chuou Beach" with my daughter and son.
This beach is on the opposit side of Shirahama Ohama beach which is nearest one of Sakuraya.
And this beach has some woody teracce and path along the sea.
Several years ago this beach had been selected as one of 88 beautiful beach of Japan.
Shizuoka Prefecture has only 2 of them..... .
" It will be sunny this afternoon." the weather forcast said, but actually it was almost cloudy at all.
I am very sorry that our guest from Italy could not see beautiful Shirahama beach.
When I went to the beach, there were many lifesavers who were students of university and were practicing.
Besides they are all women !! I was really surprised.
By the way I show you today's my son, Yuuki, .......
Today it was very warm in Shirahama.
I felt a summer a little when I was in a car.
On the route 135 there were a lot of cars of the other prefecture, because now we are in a long holidays in Japan.
Before going to Shimoda my son, Yuuki, and me went to Shirahama beach.....
In this season we can see many kind of flowers in our garden.
This flower is "Sumomo" in Japanese, "Damson" or "Japanese plum" in english.
We look forward to eating this fruit in late June.
I'm showing you today's Shirahama beach.......
4 days ago, "Kawazu Sakura Festival" had just finished, but this time the other kinds of Sakura are beginning to bloom in Shimoda.
I found this flower in our garden today, this sakura is one kind of them, "Yama Sakura", it means Sakura in the moutain.
I could see a beautiful swinging Sakura in the wind.
It was almost sunny in the morning in Shirahama, but.....
When I waked up in this early morning, I saw a red light on the window of my room.
Yes, the sun was just rising from the horizon.
I could see a beautiful sunrise after a long time from our terrace.
By the way when I went to the beach to take a picture, I found the black shadow in the wave.....
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My son, Yuuki, could get a good condition this morning, but my daughters caught a cold instead of him.
They had high fever, had loose bowels, and vomited many times like my son last night.
I hope they will have good condition soon.
By the way I took this photo yesterday in Shirahama. It was really high and big wave.
So some surfers had been challenging toward these waves......
It was rainny all day today in Shirahama.
We had not only rain but wind. Yes, it was really strong wind from North.
I was going to take a photo but I could not do it for a long time because of the strong wind and rain.
Before coming to the beach today I guessed that there was nobody there, but I found some people.
They were going to go into the big waves......
As usual, when I went to the school to pick my daughters up, we went to the beach for a while.
After we parked our car in a parking lot of Shirahama shrine, my children started to walk gladly to the beach.
My children played on the rocks and sand, but my son, Yuuki, was in a bad mood...
Today it was warm, the weather forcast on TV said that Today's temperature is the end of March and it will be warmer tomorrow.
When I went to the beach young people were there and they were feeling the strong wind holding their hands like this photo.
Yes, we had really strong wind today. When I was in the beach I couldn't open my eyes, because the strong wind flied sand.
By the way I found the spring on the way to my home from my daughte's school........
Today it was a little windy but very warm too.
When I went to Shimoda I saw a lot of cars from other prefectures. Probably they came to Izu to see Kawazu Sakura festival.
My friend said to me " It took about 4 hours more from Kanagawa to Shimoda today, it's usually only 3 hours. After Atami we had sometimes traffic jam."
Tomorrow a lot of people will come to Izu more than today, because it will be sunny and we will be able to see full bloom of Sakura.
It was sunny for a short time yesterday, but today it was a beutiful all day n Shirahama beach.
The waves were in good condetion too today, so many serfers were challenging to the waves.
On the other hand, there were many travellers who probably came to Izu to see Sakura festivals.
When I went to the beach, there was a family. And two children were playing without clothes for the winter. It was really warm today.
By the way I am going to show you today's my son......
"I am going to take a picture at the beach from now."
"Do you take it for today's weblog, dad ?"
As recentry my daughter, Akari is checking my weblig up everyday, she said so soon.
Today it was sunny in Shirahama after one week, I went to the beach when I went to pick my dauthers up to the school.
When I was taking pictures of the sea, my daughter, Hikari was playing on the sand like this. So I requested her one thing.....
Here is a question.
When did I take this picture in the morning or afternoon ?
The answer is "Morning".
The western side of Izu, "Nishi Izu" is very famous for its sunset.
But Shirahama beach is on the eastern side of Izu peninsula, so we can't take a picture of sunset on the sea.
When I wake up in the early morning I sometimes take its picture. Especially we can take picutures of the beautiful sunrise from the horizon in the winter.
Would you like to see it?
When I wento to the beach there were some people on the beachside and surfers in the sea.
Today it was sunny in the morning but after that cloudy all the afternoon.
I think that I want to see always the shinning sun and blue sea in Shimoda.
The weather forcast says that it would be cloudy and rainny tomorrow.
But after that we would be able to see warm and sunny day.
"Where are you going?" My daughter Akari asked me.
"I'm going for shopping for guest's dinner."
"Me too !"
Actually I was in a hurry because I had to prepare the dinner.
But at last I decided to go to the supermarket with my daughters Akari and Hikari, and my son Yuuki.
In my mind I was going to the beach with them to take a photo.
It was strong windy yesterday, but today it was really silent in Shirahama.
There were only 2 couples in the beach. One of them was walking along the beach side and sometimes taking a photo.
When I was taking a photo I noticed one thing.
It was about 3:30pm. The sun was setting .....
When I went to the beach and holded my camera to take a photo, I found a couple.
They were walking slowly together.
I guess they are travellers and came to Shirahama to have a slow time.
Could they have a lovely time in this afternoon?
I was looking forward to today's weather.
It was cloudy everyday last week, so I could not take a photo of the beach.
But I was very happy that I could do it at last.
Look on the top of that island!
Today it was very cold and rainny in Shirahama.
When I was watching TV news in this morning a lot of students were going into the gate of University to take the examination of Nation University through the falling snow.
In according to this TV news, the English Listenning Test started from this year and all
of students who want to get into the National University have to take it.
I think that it is good for them but really hard for them and their parents.
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When I went shopping I went to Shirahama beach to take a photo of winter flower.
Do you know this flower? Have you ever seen it in Japan?
This flower is called "Suisen" in Japanese, it means Narcissus or Daffodil.
In Shimoda we have "Suisen Festival" in every winter at Tsumekizaki cape. (It takes about 15 minutes by car from Sakuraya.)
There is a right house on the hill and small creek in front of the flowers, so we can see and feel the beautiful Japanese local nature with Pacific Ocean and Izu seven islands, and it would be good experience for you.
Please see the photos that I took there a few years ago.
Suisen Festival
It was cloudy today in Shirahama, but my son "Yuuki" and I went to the beach to take a walk.
Yuuki loves the sea and the water. When I took him near the sea, he suddenly started to walk toward the water. I took him back but he repeated it again and again.
After that he found the cap of juice bottle and started to play with it lying on the sand. Lovely baby, Yuuki!
"Hello, everybody! My mother bought me this yellow cap. It looks good on me, right?!
"By the way my father posted the photos of Yunessun where we went 2 days ago into Sakuraya's Webpage. Please check it out. You can see the photos of my sister and me!"
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