コナンフチャボイ。

So i went camping again.

I caught four rainbow trout this time, one of which was huge.
I also saw a lot more of Hokkaido, including a volcano, the tallest mountain on the island, a lot of the coastline, and this fantastic peninsula.

The volcano was dormant, but there was boiling water bubbling up, and sulfur everywhere.

the hot spring water was used for an onsen, a japanese public bath. They sold us hard boiled eggs boiled in the hotspring, and in case you dont know sulfur kind of smells like rotten eggs, so this was like eating a rotten egg, but its apparently a very famous japanese food.

I also visited a whiskey factory, with a very interesting story about the founder going to scotland to learn the secrets of making whiskey, and gettign married while he was there to a scottish woman and bringing her back to japan, something very strange for the time period,

I also went on a tour of the nuclear power plant, although the tour was really just getting on a bus, going through a gate and up a hill, then looking out the window for 5 minutes listening to the guide talk in Japanese, then going back. I read later that the two reactors there provide 25% of this part of japans power, and when the third one's construction is complete it will be 40%, they are also painted and camouflaged, to make them less of a target, (for Russia I'm told).

The part that got me was that tons and tons of extremely hot water is simply dumped into the ocean, raising the temperature a full seven degrees, apparently its all OK and that environment is actually causing a lot more life to grow there, but it just doesn't sit well with me.

Anyway,I'll provide a picture of this huge mountain we camped near, when we drove in there was a cloud on top of it, and that night there was a huge rainstorm, and the next day there was snow covering the top, which I thought was cool.

Driving along the seaside was really fantastic, there are huge cliffs and massive crashing waves everywhere. A crazy amount of tunnels has been built to get through all the low mountains, way longer than any mountain tunnel in the Rockies.

We stopped at this peninsula that ended in a really high cliff, and the sea was rough and the sun was coming through the clouds, it was the most fantastic view I have ever seen, I took up my camera to take a picture, and the battery was dead. I took some on my cellphone camera, but they're terrible,I got one decent one before it died, which I will include.


Mikki san (the guy who took me) is a great man, and I have a lot of respect for him. He is one of those people who has learned a lot of his English from movies and stuff, its really quite good, but also very animated and funny. He knows it.

In between jokes he told me that　has studied Japanese legends, western legends, and non fiction stories,

therefore he can see the future, a little,

which he says is good for business


I agree.