Shirahama Bimble
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 29 Oct 2017 23:57
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Shirahama Bimble
 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.
    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........
  A potential
one careful owner as we headed down the more or less abandoned High Street.
  Nearing the beach we liked this chap, so much so, Bear got his trigger
finger out.
   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.
  In season
and today. Talk about Spot the
Difference.
 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.
 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.
  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.
 With that the
heavens opened. Plan. Buy some treats in Lawsons and head back to our
digs.
 By the time we got in we were soaked
to the skin. Rain now falling diagonally as the wind
really blew a Hooley.
 I see no
ships. Time for a hot sake and a soak in the
bath. Sounds like an excellent plan.
 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
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