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| 30 July, 2004 | 31 July, 2004 | ||
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A group picture with the mayor. I am standing next to the mayor, if you were looking for him. |  |
A last view of my hotel room, standing at the door. It's got a little bathroom to the right, and that's about it. The bed was situated underneath a giant window, so I watched the rain and lighting there the night before. |
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This is the ink the snail spewed. |
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At the Hongu Shrine. It was raining a little, so most of us had umbrellas. Why, yes, that is a dragon! |
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And this is the snail, resembling a dirty old sponge. |
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Sitting just inside the shrine doors, it's John and Mr. Kiyono! |
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Another view of the snail. Once we knew what these looked like, we found them in crevices everywhere. |
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The boys are looking at their fortunes. You put some money, 200 yen preferably, into a box, and take out a fortune. The fortune also has a lucky charm with it. They urged me to buy one, and Kiyono-san gasped and told me I got the luckiest fortune there is! |
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A sea cucumber, also very common in the tidal pools. |
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Technically, this picture shouldn't have been taken, because we were in a holy place. This is one of 4 shrines inside the main gate and the top of the hill. They'd been built elsewhere, but got washed away, so they were rebuilt on the top of the hill. |
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The rocky...plateau thing. All of its crevices had something living in them. |
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A very pretty crab the Japanese guys found. |
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This is my sea urchin. After they killed it. :( Its ovaries are on the finger. |
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A praying mantis on the top of the minimountain in the park. |
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A view from the top. |
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Another view. |
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This is the hot spring river, which was steaming quite a bit when it first started to rain. |
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The Habachi restaurant, complete with grill in the center. |
