Well there were lots of deer but not as many Monkeys as we`d hoped - I think they knew we were coming and went to the other side of the Island. We saw one group of them yesterday afternoon but I wanted to get some good shots while the sun was out... so this morning we hiked all the way up the mountain, across half the island and back down, 4 hours in total, and not a single monkey, just a snake some frogs and a few deer. Kinkasan is a nice place, not much there at all, a shrine, a montain, and a few tourist shops, two places to stay, we chose the cheaper one and were the only people staying there.
After dinner we got talking to the people who run the place, they gave us a Sake cup with the name of the Island in Kanji written in it. They had a friend over who seemed to find us amusing and he soon jumped on his bike and came back with a gift - a pair of deer antlers, we managed to decline those on the basis that customs would probably take them... we also can`t carry them around. We also ended up with a fan and the cover to a 2006 calender??? I had way too much sake...
We also had sea urchin for dinner - after a while Nancy started to notice that it`s spines were still moving - whats it called when you get even more put off AFTER you`ve tried something thats really gross? The area was once a major whaling town and the guy who ran the place is also a fisherman. They still hunt whale but are limited to 60 a year.
Back To Tokyo tomorrow and hopefully to an internet cafe that lets you use USB devices... I`ve already shot about 30gig worth of photos - thats about 2500 shots.
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