On Saturday, Adam took us took us to experience one for ourselves. Getting there was fun. Adam decided that we needed to leave at 4am in order to get a park at his beach of choice. Fortunately, I was able to sleep a good part of the way there, and so wasn't too grumpy when we got there.
The beach itself was pretty good, nice sand, although with some rocky patches. However, the beach did end rather suddenly at a tsunami wall. Because of limited parking, it wasn't very busy (especially not at 6am, for some reason).
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| Beach at high tide, there was more beach exposed later in the day |
The water was very calm, as it was sheltered by a couple of islands. This could have been a bit of a downer, but we had lots of floating toys, so instead of playing in the waves, I bobbed around in a ring (or on whale), wearing my lampshade hat. Also, the islands were pretty to look at.
We alternated floating about in the water to cool down, with cooking food over a portable coal BBQ, and then consuming said food. There was quite a bit of it. We had what would have been 3 decent lunches, with the first at about 8am (we'd had an early start!).
Along with us Aussies, there was Adam's girlfriend Chiharu, and a few of her friends. Japanese girls are very sun conscious, because pale skin is fashionable, but when the Japanese guys started spraying on the tanning lotion, I nearly died. The Japanese sun is very hot. I guess that's why Japanese people have skin that darkens easily. Easy tan or not, these guys were very very dark brown-red by the end of the day, and something tells me they didn't sleep too well.
Overall, it was definitely an effective way to cool down, but at a surprising cost. $40 each. While this included a fantastic amount of food, most of it was to cover parking ($20 a car), fuel, and the tolls. To me, this just isn't right, but I guess we're in Japan.
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