A Valley of contradictions. It is “isolated, remote”. You cannot self-drive into it. For much of the year it is snowbound, closed. However, each summer Kamikochi has hundreds of thousands of visitors; most are highly “packaged” daytrippers.
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Its natural beauty, wildlife, cuisine, art and people make Japan a wonderful destination. English-speakers in search of opportunities for amusement and/or bewilderment will also be rewarded – many times, daily – by Japan’s signs, labels and menus.
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Their makers are almost blind. They precisely tune their webs, via which they “see” their “world”, most especially their potential prey, potential mates and potential threats.
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15,000 kilometres from LA there is a different Hollywood. Most West Australians know of its hospital/s and/or its schools. Only a few know its petite bushland.
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Photos copyright Doug Spencer, all taken late afternoon on June 10. Best viewed after first seeing an earlier post’s “not a shark“.
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This stilt (a banded stilt, I think) is one of many now active at Lake Claremont.
Many of Perth’s “natural” places are in a sad state, degrading.
Lake Claremont is a happy exception.
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Photo copyright Doug Spencer, taken on May 20, 2017 at Otofuke Shrine.
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No great effort is required for an inner urban Perth resident to experience literally hundreds of pelican sightings in a single year.
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All photos taken today, June 26. The location is in inner suburbia – just 20 minutes (10 on a train, plus an easy 10 on foot) from Perth’s CBD.
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When is a “huge shark” not a shark at all?
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