Today was my seventh time to surf at Yoshida – not bad considering that I was quite busy with work during the first part of the official beach season. (FYI, the official season is from the last weekend of June until the last weekend of August). Typhoon 11 has completely passed by Shizuoka now, so […]
Category: Shizuoka
Typhoon Number 11 (August 17)
It has been quite some time since a typhoon passed close enough to make some waves in the Shizuoka area. Here’s what the wave forecast looked like for east Japan this morning: Even without knowing exactly where we live, you can see that most of eastern Japan was expecting some larger than average waves.
Return to Tatadohama (August 15th)
We decided to go to Tatadohama. It is in the middle of the Ubon holidays, so we didn’t know what the traffic and the crowds would be like. We left our house at around 11:30 pm and arrived at around 2:30 am. As expected, the parking lot was almost full – we got the last […]
Yoshida (August 14th)
Although yesterday was fun, I expected that waves would be slightly bigger. When I arrived at the beach, there was at least 40 cars in the parking lot at just after 6 am – a very promising sign…
Snaps of Mt. Fuji
Here’s a sunrise picture of Mt. Fuji from our balcony: On the road around 7:30 am, I snapped this photo: Not particularly impressive, but by the time I was close enough to take a better picture, it was covered by clouds.
Long time no see, Yoshida! (August 13th)
No, not this Yoshida… … the famous maker of the marinade and cooking sauce, this Yoshida: That’s right, Yoshida my summer home point. Because of my unusually busy schedule (seminars, conferences and the like), I haven’t been to the beach since the Tatadohama trip – a stretch of a couple of weeks. I was excited […]
Ocean Day weekend at Tatadohama
We have been looking forward to returning to Tatadohama for several weeks now. Several years ago, we went to the summer fireworks festival at Shirahama (a popular beach nearby) and loved it. We wanted to see the fireworks again this year but unfortunately I had to proctor a reading exam at the university in the […]
Two in a row – Yoshida (July 17)
After having a good time at the beach yesterday, I was determined to go again today. The wave forecast showed that the conditions would be similar, if not even a little bit better than yesterday. The waves were small but certainly good enough for me. The weather was also good – sunny with a few […]
Yoshida – Take two (July 16)
Since it was almost two weeks since my last session, I was looking forward to getting back into the water. The wave forecast wasn’t so promising, but it was fun to catch a few waves. Here are a few snapshots: It was a Wednesday morning. Not too people were there because the waves were small […]
Random fireworks
Last Monday night, there was some sort of fireworks show. We don’t know who or why it was held. It was kind of pathetic actually. They launched one every two minutes or so. Here are a couple of grainy pictures taken from the walkway in front of our front door.
