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17:28:01
A view of Miyajima from the mainland, whilst waiting for the ferry.
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17:29:52
An old anchor in the harbour.
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17:42:21
Chie on the ferry on the way over.
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17:43:11
Me on the ferry too.
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17:46:05
The boats that were part of this festival thing, milling around the tori.
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17:46:46
There's the tori, seen from the sea... and it was low tide, which meant we'd be able to go and stand underneath it.
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17:48:21
A couple more boats in front of the tori.
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17:56:11
On dry land now I think, and there's some boats. Errr.
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17:56:17
Walking along the (surprisingly smelly) beach to the tori.
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18:01:11
...and here it is! Rather pleased with this picture, it was a bit hard to frame it up, but it looks like I've got it all in.
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18:01:18
This is a bit more "dynamic" than the first one.
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18:01:40
Following the now standard routine with these pictures, we swapped over and now I was the subject.
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18:01:49
Me and the tori again.
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18:01:55
Me coming back from the tori to pick up my camera.
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18:02:10
Chie on the beach.
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18:02:32
A few more tori pictures just to make absolutely sure...
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18:02:42
...and another...
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18:05:46
...one with a sign as well.
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18:06:05
...and one with a slightly interesting sky.
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18:48:31
We were determined to go for a swim as it was so hot, so we returned to the beach we'd been to last time I was in Japan, which is a bit of a walk, over on the other side of the island.
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19:09:25
Just to prove I had definitely been swimming! Please accept all the usual apologies - you probably didn't want to see this!
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19:09:31
I've found that drinking beer on the beach immediately after (and definitely not before!) swimming gives it a whole new dimension - I heartily recommend it.
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19:09:50
Chie, very reminiscent of a number of beer adverts here in Japan!
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19:15:03
This was no ordinary beer either - we had managed to find Orion - the "other" Japanese beer. This is a product of Okinawa, and not widely available in the rest of Japan. This is only the second time I've had it - the other time being, funnily enough, at a Japanese restaurant in Oxford.
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19:30:46
Chie on the phone to Hide.
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19:34:49
A random and pointless picture of the beach and sea.
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19:39:08
The hour or so we spent sitting on the beach here was so nice, just relaxing (and drinking beer!) - it was one of those "we really must do this more often" moments.
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20:03:41
It had really got quite dark at this point, and I naively thought I'd be able to get a picture without the flash!
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20:04:44
Here's another go at the same picture with the flash on. Now I'm sure it wasn't really that dark!
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20:27:50
On the way back to the other side of Miyajima, I found the lighting of these two tunnels sufficiently eery and interesting to merit a picture.
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20:50:48
A view across to the lights of the mainland, through some trees. I used the night-time mode on my camera for some of these pictures, which does manage to get a fair amount of detail in, but also gets all the colours wrong!
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20:54:30
The bit of the festival where people carrying chochin (lanterns) beckon the boats into the shore, where one of the shrines is.
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20:54:56
Same picture with different light setting I think.
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20:55:32
...and again.
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20:59:14
A bit blurred...
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20:59:23
Ah that's better! I was determined to get hold of one of these lanterns, and seemingly they were free! Incidentally, that's not the same tori over there, it is a smaller version, at this other little shrine along the coast a bit from the main one.
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21:00:04
Same picture with the flash on - not sure which I prefer.
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21:00:57
Chie holding the lantern thing.
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21:01:40
Chie and the lantern again.
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21:05:16
This had obviously become something of a source of fascination to me, perhaps a result of having had a bit to drink!
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21:08:05
A picture of the boats coming in to the little harbour here.
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21:11:38
One of the boats seems to have docked...
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21:12:10
It seemed necessary to hold the lanterns up a bit higher at this point, for some reason.
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21:12:54
Another boat comes into harbour.
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21:14:57
One of the boats seen through the tori.
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21:16:13
These two ladies here are winners of the "Miss Miyajima" contest. It would have seemed rude not to have my picture taken with them.
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21:16:54
More boats (and the backs of people's heads!) again.
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21:23:20
That lantern still hasn't lost its novelty value then!
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21:27:16
Me in front of quite a lot of lanterns.
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21:27:48
...and again.
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21:29:06
I think the boats are heading back out to sea again now...
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21:29:32
...a bit hard to make out anything much from these pictures!
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21:34:43
Hmmm...
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21:47:34
A blurry picture of the procession of lantern carriers, on their way from the smaller shrine where we were before, to the main shrine. We got on a fery and headed home shortly after this.
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