Higo Blog

There is a secret lair, hidden inside of a junk-filled bunker under a seaside hotel/resort in Sumoto City, Awaji Shima. Getting into the cave required some minor climbing and acrobatics, and only when I had gotten inside did it become apparent that someone had been here first, and had claimed it as their own. Someone has obviously spent a lot of time bombing out the joint with conventional painting supplies and the Japanese equivalent of Krylon. Among the layers of detritus left behind by stormy waters and past gatherings were an aluminum boat, a scavenged table with four milk crate seats, a few nasty, funky futons, and other stuff that might have been litter or someone's property. It's always an interesting time when a regular outing unexpectedly turns into a modern-day anthropological/archaeological expedition. I wonder if the masked teenagers who go racing around late at night on their loud motorcycles, leading the local cops on long, dragged out chases are the same guys who chill out here. I think I'll just leave that as an unknown to indulge my imaginations.



*note: the chamber on the corner is separated from the lair by a concrete wall, so if you look in the closest openings, all you can see are the remains of a rusted out septic tank that has been filled with rubble.