Shirahama Bimble

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Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 29 Oct 2017 23:57
Shirahama Bimble
 
 
 
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This morning brought a new challenging experience – how to eat a fried egg with chopsticks.....I cunningly used my teaspoon to lift mine on to my doorstep and somehow we both got away without getting messy. Quite getting used to salad for breakfast.
 
 
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Forecast for a severe tropical cyclone to hit the area this afternoon, we gathered our anoraks, watched a fisherman come home and out we went for a bimble to the seaside........
 
 
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A potential one careful owner as we headed down the more or less abandoned High Street.
 
 
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Nearing the beach we liked this chap, so much so, Bear got his trigger finger out.
 
 
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One of the best beaches in Japan with typical fun advertising. I didn’t want to look at the clouds turning things very dark for us.
 
 
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In season and today. Talk about Spot the Difference.
 
 
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This tired, old lady (prime position overlooking the beach, just steps off it) had an information board Shirahama is located on the west side of the Shirahama Peninsula. It is 600 m in length from north to south. The beach is shallow for some distance from the shore. The bright snow-like sand contains more than 90% crystal. It is said that Shirahama is a place where one can have a clear view of the moon. Attracted by the beauty of this beach, many poets during the Heian era to the Muromachi era wrote numerous poems about the beach. Shirahama is the famous symbol of Shirahama. I guess the poets then found White Sand Beach in the Whitsundays. Or our beloved pink beach on Barbuda.
 
 
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Next to the tired house and opposite some fancy public conveniences was a rather splendid example of a bobble tree as I call them. A certain tourist got in the shot for perspective. Always pleased to help. Growling. Look, over there, it’s a Daiso and 24 Hour Foodcourt. Off we went.
 
 
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Foodcourt was not an eatery as expected but an actual supermarket selling everything expected with a few surprises in the chill cabinet......Reasonable prices and the fruit didn’t frighten us like the episode in Nara when our two bananas, pack of satsumas, a few grapes and two nashi pears cost over fourteen pounds. We did stick our heads up over the escalator in Daiso but a pound shop is just a pound shop and we had a town to explore.
 
 
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With that the heavens opened. Plan. Buy some treats in Lawsons and head back to our digs.
 
 
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By the time we got in we were soaked to the skin. Rain now falling diagonally as the wind really blew a Hooley.
 
 
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I see no ships. Time for a hot sake and a soak in the bath. Sounds like an excellent plan.
 
 
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The view for the rest of the day. I had a soak and we watched a couple of episodes of Crisis before we turned in, a long day of travel tomorrow – one bus, two trains, a cable car a bus and a short walk to get to Koyasan in the mountains, is that to find some spiritual enlightenment, I’ll settle for a dry weather.
 
 
 
 
ALL IN ALL LIKE ANY SEASIDE TOWN OUT OF SEASON
                     WITH NOT MANY PEOPLE OUT AND ABOUT