Kamikochi is a very beautiful valley in the “northern Alps” of the Japanese Alps.
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A surprise/shock awaits any whale-protecting nation’s citizen who strolls through Tokyo’s Ueno Park and happens upon Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science.
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My favourite wine “product description”, as spotted yesterday in Kamikochi in the northern Japanese Alps.
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The caption summarises Gio-ji temple, as I and my beloved enjoyed it, uncrowded, two days ago.
Someone else, on Trip Advisor, headlined his post, Disappointing, many better temples in Kyoto.
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This chapter looks at temporarily dry land. Chapter two – coming up in November – looks at softer things that cannot survive quite as far away from the low tide line.
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All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken April 2017, near West Leederville Railway Station, less than 3 kilometres from Perth GPO.
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The shortest of the “big three” that dominate the central plateau on New Zealand’s North Island is Tongariro. The more “perfect” Ngauruhoe deserves an Academy Award – not just for its role as “Mt Doom” in The Lord of the Rings, but for so convincingly presenting itself as an independent entity, when it is in fact Tongariro’s “parasitic”, secondary cone. Ruapehu is the North Island’s highest peak and only currently glaciated mountain.
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Formed by a landslide around 10,000 years ago, Rotopounamu is a forest-fringed little gem – a lovely contrast to the more starkly dramatic, actively-volcanic landscapes that attract most visitors to New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park.
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The name is a “terminological inexactitude”- Ninety Mile Beach is “only” 88 kilometres long – but it is huge, and beautiful.
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Uttterly fearless too! Meet Petroica longipes – New Zealand’s North Island robin.
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