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Sakurajima

Big Cats

It's been very hot and humid here lately. I've been very busy. In the meantime, nothing but photos from me.
These were taken in the same park as the pics in the previous two posts.

When Dinosaurs Roamed... Wherever

Yesterday we took a drive down to Kagoshima and checked out a few of the sights around Sakurajima. One place we visited was the somewhat misleadingly named Sakurajima Nature Dinosaur Park (there doesn't appear to be any official site in English or Japanese). This place is essentially a big playground with several "life size" dinosaur replicas acting as slides and other stuff for kids to play on. It's quite a nice park for kids, but not especially educational.






Of course, with all these dinosaurs wandering around you can't expect to leave without incident. Thanks to the fierce struggles of my little girl I was barely able to escape the hungry jaws of this horrible beast.


Soon afterward, however, the foul beast devoured both my daughter and my dog!


As torn by grief as we are, my wife and I did enjoy the relative quiet last night and this morning...

Sakurajima by Day

Sakurajima by Night

I don't think I've ever explicitly said it (at least not here), but Japan really is a beautiful place. None of the photos I've posted here really do it justice, and most of what I've written about Japan and/or the Japanese has been griping (i.e. the same sort of shit a well-balanced skeptic would say about any place he might happen to be; you should hear what I say about Canada when I'm actually there amongst the cheap, lazy, smoke-bumming bastards...).

The pic below is of Sakurajima, an active volcano in Kagoshima. It was taken at night, so it's kinda sucky (I'll post a couple of sucky day-time shots later). Try hard, though, and maybe you'll see what I saw a few hours ago on my way home.