Sydney fresh seafood for Late lunch on 2015 NYE

Sydney rock oyster, pacific oyster and Large Aussi prawn....were so delicious!!!!!

We don't need Lobsters and Abalone to celebrate NYE,

A cozy place and good company make me happy happy happy new year.

Family visits Australia

First dinning out in Australia with my family is at Marigold restaurant in Chinatown,

Prawn dumpling, Chive dumpling and pork rib

                                         I have to order White bait because that is my fav.

At home Field mushroom stake with spinach pesto, Kangkung  with ginger, King island double Brie,

biodynamic rye sprout bread with pumpkin, sunflower seed and almond paste.

Sacred Christmas Time at St Mary Cathedral Sydney

Cyren Restaurant - The best Seafood Platter

Sydney Rock Oysters---They open the shell when the order was made,
Prawns---plump and fresh,
Lobster---fully grown and tender,
Mussel---marinated with olive oil and herbs,
Smoked salmon, fried calamari, fried fish, fried prawn,

The quality is high, yes this is their signature menu.

Sculpture by the sea 2015

Rip curl Bondi Beach

Mother Hippo

            

Kochi wonderful country life 2

I have never traveled this part of Shikoku though I visited the most of Shikoku before.

The fragrant of the nature relaxes me comfortably, it is just like a meditation....

A separate bathroom and toilet

Morning glory

Todoroki Waterfall

Stone scraper at Toujin Iwa

A shrine in Nuno

Surfing at Kochi Pref. Oct 2015

2 nights 3 days sleeping in a van & BBQ dinner surf trip in Kochi Pref with friends.

I didn't have my own board so borrowed from Nori-kun, which was not the best thing to do
but I managed to have several good waves and lots of fun.

Water was warm, I would say it was warmer than Sydney's summer water.

DAY 1 :  SMALL POWERLESS WAVE at FUTAMI BEACH

DAY 2 : KARITSU SURF BEACH

DAY 3 :  Typhoo swell has got to the peak, NUNO beach was the only option to surf. Amazingly uncrowded

After day we went back to Shimanto, and this was a next day at KURE , on the way to Kochi city

Shimanto River runs

Here are many face's of Shimanto River.  

Runs into the ocean

Ayu angler

A bridge without railing

Sirene of River Simanto

Kochi pref. what a wonderful country life 1

.The mountains of Shikoku is vertically deep, roads and trains run the hems of mountains.

There are countless tunnels all over and so many rivers run into the ocean.

The food is different to Hokkaido.

Variety of sea food just made me so happy......

Fried Utubo (like a jumbo eel)

Fried Shimanto river shrimp

Wild eel, so tender

Young Kampachi fish

Sashimi plate, Katsuo (Bonito) of course

Some noodle

Sarachi dish

Shakotan、Kamui Peninsula

Katsuei Sushi is very popular and serves excellent Sushi.

Special premium sushi ,9pieces of Abaloni, Botan prawn, Tuna belly, Scalop, Salmon roe,

Yellow tail, Hokki clam, Japanese Flounder, Squid.

Famous Shakotan blue

Kamui rock

Onsen998

Autumn full moon ceremony

Actual full moon is early tomorrow morning, but in Japan we celebrate Mid September full moon.

Hakodate Area Sep Silver week Surfing trip

The last day of Sliver Week (long weekends), our dawn patrol started on Sumiyoshi Fishermens wharf.

It was a tiny break, too small to share the waves, so we moved on to Shikabe, which is one hour driving north-east.  Shikabe got a direct swell , swell size was good but was too straight and mushy and needed more tide.  We predicted that the best surfing time was around mid day.

So we drove back to Menagawa. There was fun size left breaks and sometimes sucky right breaks.

Yeah, surfed at Menagawa and on the way back to Sapporo , we checked Shikabe again.

Oh yeah!!! I haven't seen such a clean 2 -3ft breaks in Hokkaido.  No hesitation, we paddled out for fun.

Sumiyoshi fishermen's wharf 住吉漁港

Shokabe in the morning. 朝の鹿部

Menagawa. 女那川  because of the cold water river, the water here has cool and warm patches.  After surfing, walking cross and dipping the river is so nice

Shikabe in arvo. 午後の鹿部

Komagatake. 駒ケ岳

Tempura soba after surfing

Thick soy sauce taste Ramen at Kotetsu, Tomakomai