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27 July, 2004 |
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28 July, 2004 |
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This is our group trooping along the rocky side of the beach, down to the tidal pools. |
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A dark picture of us giving our presentation to the Former Minister of Education and the bazillion other important people. |
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My quadrant. As I said, mostly mussels. A couple of snails. |
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Middle school kids presenting their power point. |
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A nice view of the rock pools. |
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More presentations. |
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Us being lectured about the tidal pools by Shirayama-sensei. |
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Scraping up samples from the rock. I killed a couple of barnacles in the process. =( |
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The quadrant with the bazillion snails and hermit crabs. Can't tell them apart from above, because the hermit crabs live in snail shells. |
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Dr. Akito giving us a speech. |
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In a tidal pool. It's a sea urchin, a very commonly found creature. |
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And again in Japanese. |
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These are button jellyfish. I almost picked one off the beach, because they look just like large bottle caps. |
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Our lunch in one of the dining rooms of the Kawakyu Hotel. This picture doesn't convey the sheer ugly of this thing. |
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A group picture with the sun in our eyes. |
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Some children presenting at Tanabe Commercial High School. |
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Out at the river site. This is me, walking next to Nanae, unfortunately the only good picture I have of her. |
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More walking down the road... |
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Filing to the river. |
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And taking samples at the water's edge. |
