It was almost cloudy here yesterday, but we got a sunshine and high temperature today.
When I went to the beach to take photos after noon it was low tide.
But we didn't have big waves here, so it was very good condition for snorkeling.
We can go down the cliff from Route 135 by walk and get into the water from the right side.
If I hadn't had job today I would have snorkeled today.
Yesterday, our customers who stayed at Sakuraya called us late afternoon and said,
"Now we are near Mt. Amagi, but we have snow here. That's why we can't go ahead."
Yesterday afternoon my wife said when she came back from Shimoda downtown,
"It is very cold outside."
I didn't know such a condition outside, because I was cooking in warm kitchen then.
"How is snowing there?"
I asked our customers and he answered,
"It's all white here and every car stopped running. They can't move anymore due to a lot of snow."
In this season the cherry trees have blossoms in Izu peninsula, but they had more than 17 cm snow yesterday.
At 9:33 am on February Japan Meteorological Agency issued Tsunami warning due to an earthquake in Chile.
All Japan was made rush by this information yesterday.
My aunt who went to Tokyo the day before yesterday couldN7t come back to Shimoda because JR Tokaido Line stopped running due to Tusnami warning.
It usually takes about 2 hours and half to get to Shimoda from Tokyo, but it took more than 12 hours.
But we had only 50 or 60 cm Tsunami in Shimoda actually.
Izukyuko line runs along the seaside,so I understand if they stopped running.
But JR Tokaido line goes a little far from the sea.
Why are transport facilitiles in Japan so nervous?
Shirahama beach in Shimoda is one of good points for surfing.
We sometimes very good wave here, especially in September due to typhoon.
But today we had a very beautiful wave like this.
It looks twice as high as surfer in the water.
I don't understand why they are not afraid of big waves.
If I don't have a surf board I can't get into the water.
As always I went for walking this morning.
Today I came back home on route 135 and took some photos at Shirahama shrine.
There was nobody, but I found out a cherry tree full blooming.
Last night I checked the weather forecast for Shimoda and there was a sign of snow!
But we didn't have it today actually.
This winter we don't have snow in Izu peninsula.
I walked this morning after 3 days.
There is a parking lot on the left side of Shirahama post office.
And I found out some birds on the cherry trees there.
Some of them are blooming fully and white eyes come to suck nectar of these blossoms.
I wanted to take photos of them but they didn't stop jumping from the blossom to the others.
I went to the beach to take photos after some days and could see the mountains over there.
When I ariived at bus stop "Shirahama Kaigan" I found out Mt. Amagi over the mountains.
Last night it was very cold here in Shimoda, so they had snow on top of mountain.
It was a first time to see snow on top this winter.
If I had enough time I could have gone there to see a lot of snow.
This morning when I was walking with my daughter on the way to Shirahama elementary schlool, my daughter said,
"Look at this. It's frozen!"
Last night it was very cold in Shimoda, so the water drops on the leaves are frozen in the low temperature.
In these days we had cold days in Japan, and it snowed heavily in the north part of Japan.
But we don't have any snow in Shimoda.
When I came back from Shimoda downtown I found out this scene this late afternoon.
I parked my car on the road and took this picture.
The moon has just rose up and the moon light was coming down on the sea.
It was very beautiful.
In Shirahama we can see many kinds of beautiful scenery, but this is one of them.
I took this photo at around 5:50 in the morning on September 25th.
Shirahama is located on the west side of Izu peninsula, so we can see a sunrise but we can't see a sunset on the ocean.
I am showing the second one....
Continue reading "2009/09/29 Beautiful scenery in morning in Shirahama" »
Today it was rainy from early in this morning, but it stopped to rain at around 4:00 PM and we could see a blue sky in the west.
After that my son and I went to Shimoda downtown for shopping.
When we finished shopping we found that the sun was setting into the west mountain and the sky changed the color from blue to yellow.
"OK, Yuuki. Let's come back home. We will be able to see the beautiful sunset today.".....
Continue reading "Sunset and Cloud in the Sky - - Shirahama Beach" »
We usually pick plums from the plum tree after the middle of June, but the harvesting season is earlier than usual.
So I went to the plum tree to pick I found out this!
Have you ever seen it?
This is a nest of birds, but I don't know whose nest it is.
I was thinking there was nothing inside, and I put my hand into it.
Then my hand touched something there. ......
Continue reading "Whose home is this? - - in Sakuraya's garden" »
Last nigh we had heavy rain here in Shimoda, but it became cloudy at 9:00 AM.
After our guests checked-out, when I was cleaning the guest room I found an amazing scenary through the window of guest room.
The island was floating on the sea of clouds.
That island is called "Izu Oshima".
That is one of islands located in the pacific ocean.
It was very beautiful like a picture.
Today it was sunny too.
The air temperature was going up and up and very hot at last.
This morning I went to Shirahama post office and went a little futher to Ogasaki Wing.
Ogasaki Wing is located at the entrance of Shimoda city on Rout 135, and this is one of good view points in Izu peninsula.
From this points we can look over Shirahama Beach, Suzaki peninsula and Izu seven islands.
I show you the photo of Shirahama beach taken from this point. .......
Continue reading "Sunny again in Shirahama - - Ogasaki Wing View Point" »
I sometimes find some kinds of animals around our Pension.
They are squirrel, racoon dog, wild boa and so on.
Today, when I was cleaning our guest room I found something walking on the road in front of our building.
Do you know that?
Yes, it's a monkey.
They sometimes come to our feild and eat vegetables and fruits because they can't get the foods in the mountain and may be hungry.
But there is no problem. Because they go into the forest immediatly when they find out us.
.
.
In the moring it was a cloudy but it became sunny in the afternoon today.
I could not go to the beach today because we were very busy, but I think there were some people on the beach.
The weather forcast says that it will be sunny tomorrow and the temperature will be 28 degrees.
Wao! I love the heat and look forward to tomorrow.
The busy Golden Week was finished at last today.
Thank you for staying at Sakuraya during Golden Week.
The weather was very good in the first half of GW, but we had a rain after May 4th.
It was truely regrettable for our guests in that period.
It's still raining in Shirahama today, but we may have a sun tomorrow.
My family and I have been living in Shimoda for more than 15 years, but Shimoda and Shirahama make us very happy.
Because Izu peninsula has both the mountains and the beautiful sea and we can spend a happy time with them.
Especially, in this season we can see the fresh green leaves on the mountains. So I love this season.
By the way .....
Continue reading "Green leaves on the mountains in Izu & Big Wave" »
When I went to Shimoda I went to Shimoda park to check the blooming of cherry trees.
This year it has been cold in these days, so Sakura trees started to bloom slowly.
But I was able to see some trees have already bloomed in this park.
There are a lot of cherry trees on the river side in Shimoda downtown, but I don't know if I can go there soon because we will be busy this week.
As I had to go for shopping I went to the beach after that.
I took this picture at the back of Shirahama shrine in Shirahama Ohama beach.
There is a red gate called "Torii" in Japanese on the rock and we can see Izu Oshima island over there.
Shirahama shrine is located on north side of Shirahama beach, I am showing the another picture taken at the middle of this beach. .....
Continue reading "Sakura (cherry) blossom will be start blooming on March 25 in Shimoda in 2009." »
I went to Shirahama primary school with my son to pick my daughter up after school today.
This is a parking lot near the school.
When I picked my daughter up I found this and took some photos.
There are some Kawazu Sakura trees there.
We had a strong wind today and it made the cherry blossom brawn down on the parking lot.
My children were excited with it and running around this place.
In these days Kawazu Sakura trees have green leaves after blooming..
The best season for Sakura in this region will be finished soom.
Today it was very beutiful day.
When I saw the ocean from our pension I could see Izu Oshima island clearly, so I desided to go to Mt. Nesugata-yama by Cable car with my wife and son.
It's only 3 minutes by calbe car to get to the top from the cable car station near Izukyu Shimoda station.
As I was thinking we could get very beutiful senery from the top of mountain like this picture........
Continue reading "Sakura is fully blooming. - - Shimoda Ropeway (Cable Car)" »
Today it was rainy as yesterday.
When it rainy it frustrated me because I can't go anywhere to take pictures.
Anyway I went out to check out the outside condition and I found two green birds came to the cherry tree next to our building.
Do you know why they came? .......
Continue reading "Rain, Cherry blossom (Kawazu Sakura) and White eye" »
"We couldn't see a beutiful sunrise this morning, but we are lucky because we could take a picture of gorgeous sunrise yesterday morning."
Our guests who came from Taiwan and stayed for 2 nights said so when they checked out this morning.
As usual I went to the primary school with my daughter this morning and I took this picture on the way to home.
It wasn't clear by cloud on the horizon this mornig, so our guests couldn't get beautiful senery.
The weather forcast says it will be a little warmer after the middle of this week.
By the way do you have hey fever?
We have to worry about it after Wednesday because it will be warm after that.
This morning, I walked with my daughter as usual, and when I was coming back home I found an interesting phenomenon on the beach.
It was a Frost smoke or an ice fog caused by extremely cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water.
The lowest temprature of Shirahama area was about 5 degrees, but the water was over 17 degrees in this season.
That's why I could see this phenomenon this morning.
Today, the time of sunrise was 6:54 am.
I started to go to the shool with my daughter and the children at 7:00 am as usual and I walked down the hill.
I found that the sun was shining in the cloud and took this photo.
This morning I could see the sun with cloud and it was gorgeous scenery.
In the afternoon I went to Shimoda for shoping by bike and .......
Continue reading "Sunrise and Izu seven islands in the late afternoon" »
It was very cold today too like yesterday.
I walked with the children who go to Shirahama elementary school as usual this morning.
When we were walking on the national road one of the children found and cried,
"Look at this! The leaf is frozen!!"
Actually the water is frozen on leaves because of the low temprature.
I show the another photo......
Continue reading "Wao, leaves are frozen!? - - Shirahama, Shimoda" »
This morning I started to walk to the elementary school at 7:00 am with my daughter and the other children as usual.
When we went down the hill the sun was just rising up next to Toshima island.
Then one of children found something on the road and said,
"Look at this! The water is frozen here!"
The sea water is about 17 degrees even in this season but the water outside is sometimes frozen.
I got up early this morning and I left my home with my daughter to go to school.
On the way to school I found that the sun was just rising on the horizon, so I started to run to take photos.
Today we had big waves in Shirahama and I could take this photo with the water broken by stone.
I had some things to buy I went to Shimoda today.
Before that I went to the small fisherman's port in Shirahama.
Look at this photo.
What a beautiful color this is!
The ships were floating on the blue clear water. It's really amazing.
I show you one more photo which I took today .....
Recent Comments