Festival and new...

Regional Festival

Many food and wines were around...


Cute Ice Cream Car...


Ben&Jerry's Ice Cream Shop


Strawberry And Cheesecake Ice Cream

It was big ice cream for one coin donation.
I only could eat 2/3 of ice cream. Vegemite sandwich and this is my lunch...


It was a good weather for walking along the rive... but...

The flood was changed scenery... but...

Who can tell it was badly flooded...


Riverside, some people were having a fun time...


Riverside...

I do not remember the past.
What was it like?


Brisbane River.

The river and bridge are same... but something changed...

Yes, huge building is now standing near the river.
I reckon it will more higher.

G'day mate!!

Australia!!

Finally I arrived Australia.
How much longer I was waiting for...

My plane was 2 hours late in Japan. I thought I can not go Australia...
I proud myself about I can speak English, because if not probably I could not arrive.

My first meal in Australia.


Mini burger...

It was not mini burger. Huge. That's Australia style.

Purple Flowers...

Murasaki Tsuyukusa (Purple Tradescantia)

This pretty flowers are growing at my house.


Murasaki Tsuyukusa

This flower is interesting.
One finished, next day bloom the other...
It is so gorgeous flower.

Home grown

Strawberries

Many strawberries are growing at my house.
This year has many.


Small, but nice strawberry.
Can you see some others behind this red one?


Two strawberries that I could pick today.
That's pretty, isn't it?

Taste was sweet and bit sour.
Thank you for growing...

Osaka

Oneday at Osaka...

The other day I went to Osaka.
It was just for my visa. I had to take a medical check specified hospital.
I wish I could have had more time, I could see around more and had real Takoyaki (Octopus ball).



At Sennichimae
There were lots of young people this street.


At Doutonbori
This is a one of famous neon sign.


Takomusu
Takoyaki was on the top of Onigiri (rice ball).
I wish I could have real Takoyaki...
I had four of them on the Shinkansen (bullet train) and last one was at home...

I wish I could enjoy the time at Osaka, but it was too short stay and my emotionally unwell (hospital staff act and said bad...) I couldn't enjoy much actually...

Go for a walk

To see Sakura (Cherry bloosoms)...

It was a gorgeous weather for walking outside.
There is a river near my house. Also lots of Sakura (Cherry blossoms).
I saw few creature at river...

Sakura with Kosagi (Egretta garsetta/little egret)
Kosagi was finding little fishes.

Kogamo (Anas crecca/Common teal)
There were two of them... I guess they are pair.

Carp and family turtles
They are also looking up Sakura (Cherry blossom), maybe...

Nanohana (Barassica rapa/Field mustard) Best shot for today.
It was really nice to walk along the river. There were not many people walking, so it was good day to take photos.

Picnic

One of spring time...
The other day I went to Ai-chikyuhaku kinen kouen (Expo park).
The weather was really nice and warm.

Kawara (Roof tiles) art

Global loop
There were lots of this time od road when Expo was held.

Lot's of flowers are blooming in the park.

Sakura (Cherry blossoms) tunnel where we had lunch.

Close up of Sakura.
Can you find a honey bee?

Family time.

Family trip to Gamagori

I went Gamagori with my family.

The weather was cloudy and rain. Even though I had really fun time.

We visited many places. I just put some photos from my family trip.

Seida no ookusu (Big Cinnamomum camphora)

Huge trunk...

Around Trunk: 14.3m

Around Root: 13.6m

Height: 22m

Tree aged: Over 1000 years

We went to city museum in Gamagori.

There were lots of things that old people used in Gamagori. However I could not take any photos.

Luckily there was locomotive. We can go inside to take a look. Also we can take photos, so I took many photos here.

It was very dark inside.

I put a flash on. It became bit bright photo.

Appearance of locomotive

Front view.

One of my favourite photo.

Wheels and rods

Another my favourite photo.

Hotel was very nice.

There were few types of Onsen (Hot spring) at hotel.

Located tip of the cape. We could see ocean.

Lighthouse with ship.

The weather was not good, so I couldn't see blue ocean. But it was nice to see ocean from the room.

Onsen (Hotspring) was very nice. I had nice relaxing time.

My family trip was made me smile. So happy about trip with my family.

Thank you.

Hawaii trip

Aloha~

I went to Hawaii with my mum and her friend.
It was a first time for me to go there.

Bus tour...

I had one day bus tour with my mum.
We went around the Oahu Island. We stayed short time in each places.
Next time I am there, I want to go myself or tour in specific place.


At Hanauma Bay from the lookout


Wild chickens at Hanauma Bay lookout
Guide said 'If you eat it, it must be tasty, because they eat nice food from the land.'.


Ku heiau sacred at Makapu'u beach park.
Behind is Kaohikaipu (Turtle Island)


Coconut art...
At Tropical farms.


North Shore at Sunset beach...
Dogs are playing.


Sunset beach...
Waves are high, but still not high enough for surf competition.

Near Sunset beach, there was a sea turtle.

We were lucky, because waves were high for sea turtle...

Key of toilet's door...

There are many homeless people. They make a mess in the toilet and for secrity reason there are key at shops.

At Dole Plantation

Pineapple flower...

Another shot of pineapple flower...
Cute purple flowers in there...

Can you see tiny pineapple is growing?

So pretty to see them.

I wish I had time more... I want to see more.

We just had 25mins. Not enough to see them all. Next time I will go myself.

Purl Harbour

At Purl Habour... saw some warships.

I felt bit depressed, because of the past history.

We can not ignore it. Need to know and learn.

Know as Konoki Nanoki (Hitachi tree) in Japanese.

This tree is called Monkypod.

Walked around the Waikiki beach...

I saw a yacht far away.

Good day, nice beach and fine shot.

Many colourful surfboards.

Just walked...Up at the sky....

Pretty pink flowers on the roof of the building.

Fruits, vegies and sweets shop

Henry's Place...

Finally found handmade ice cream and sorbet shop.

Menu on the freezer.

They have various flavour. Each day has different taste.

Coconut Ice cream...

It was big to eat myself at once. I had to put in freezer few times.

Staff write the taste each cup by hand.

There are sandwiches as well... I only had ice cream (Coconut) and sorbet (Lychee and Mango).
The taste was really nice. Next time I wanna try other flavour icecream and sorbet, sandwiches and fruits.

Lunch at beach restaurant...

I walked around the beachside with my mum.
We found one restaurant... Inside was almost none Japanese tourists, because no Japanese menu.
My mum was so happy about I can speak English.

Looking from the restaurant...
Waitress took us to corner of the table which most beautiful place to see the beach.


Waiter served water with flower.
It was a service from waiter, because no one had flower on the glass.


Loco moco. (Hawaiian cuisine)



Maui Wowie Salad


We shared those... It was very big for two people.
Looks nice and taste were very good too.

Discover...


I was walking around myself in Waikiki area.
I found one little shopping centre called 'Kings Village'.
Actually this centre is old shopping centre. I missed the show called 'Changing of the King's Guard'... I did not know what time the show start...


In stead of real Kings guard... Doll of the King's guard.


Nice wall picture at King's Village.

Bishop museum

I went to Bishop museum with my mum.
We took a bus from Waikiki. It was a first time to take The Bus (Bus services in Oahu) for long trip.
We could see lots of places from the bus.





Pretty Hibiscus at Bishiop museum.



Two big birds of statues in front of science museum.

Behind is The Bishop museum.



An unknown tree with fruit(?)



In front of the Bishop museum.
Inside has lots of history of Hawai...
It was nice to see and know them.


When I left the museum, we saw American thing...



Cute American style of school bus.

On the way back from museum, we hop off the bus near Aloha Tower Marketplace.


Iolani Palace


Statue of King Kamehameha and behind is supreme court justice




Aloha Tower.




Some view from the tower.
Oahu has different many faces... Not only nature. Industry as well.


Interesting objects...



Black normal cycle parking space.


Colouful cycle parking space


Very cute teddy bears at teddy bear museum.
I wanted to go in, but I did not go...
Sadly it was too expensive to go in there.



Near the hotel, there is a clothes shop.
On the roof, there was a dog (Statue)...



Another clothes shop neat the hotel.
Pineapple boy and girl.
They sell very cute T-shirts... but I just looked them.

At the airport...


Behind the airplane, I could see some mountain of Oahu Island.

I had few problems, but it was really gorgeous trip.
I took over 400 of photos, bought some things that I wanted to buy, met my friend, etc. So many things to talk about. Not enough to talk about here.

If you want to hear more or get information, please let me know via email...

Mahalo~