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Category Archives: Creatures
June 4 — Trips from the Road
Despite rainy weather, we decided to make a day trip for abalone. The swell wasn’t the predicted 2 feet that we hoped for, but it wasn’t too bad. The water could best be described as “sharky”, due to a combination … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Aquatic Critters, Creatures, Fishes, Fishing, Inverts, Northern California, Transportation, Travel
Jurassic Island
On the Garden Island of Kauai, there are many, many chickens. They greeted us at the airport when we set down, begged for food (especially the fried chicken) and crowed early in the morning. You could live off of a … Continue reading
Posted in Aquatic Critters, Creatures, Travel, Uncategorized
All The Little Live Things
Living and traveling around Kyushu, I saw all sorts of strange, beautiful, disgusting, and fascinating creatures. Here are a few that I encountered in my last few weeks around. A butterfly at Daikanbo. On this day, the clouds were sweeping … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures
Attack Of The Venemous Caterpillars
Merin was holding the ladder for me, when she brushed up against these caterpillars and noticed that the little bastards had envenomated her. So I did what any responsible older brother would do. I cut off the three leaves that … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures
Baka Hebi
Last night I ate dinner at the Takahashi’s, enjoying a huge “hamburg” and introducing them to the liquid red pleasure that is Shiracha. Their daughter and one of my sannensei students, Fumi, is going to Thailand for two weeks this … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures
Resonance
I recieved this story written by one of my Daiichi High School ichinensei (as an assignment of the VHS program in Kumamoto), and it reminded me of the cat that Justin and Merin rescued. The only differences are that the … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures
My Favorite Places To View Hotaru
One of my favorite ways to spend a spring or summer night in Japan is to go out and watch the hotaru (fireflies) flicker on and off in unison. The Hotaru Festival in Kyokushi (North of Ozu in Kumamoto-ken) is … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures
Nature Is Disgusting
Let’s face it, nature is a dirty place, dirtier than places like the middle-class suburbs, but mostly cleaner than third world countries, slums, and shanty towns where the population’s excrement co-mingles with their drinking water. Ah, the suburbanites have the … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures
Cynops pyrrhogaster
This is a Japanese Firebellied Newt that one of my students caught in the Tamarai River that runs next to my Chugakko. Yesterday, my JTE decided to have class outside, and to “wing it”. As would be expected when kids … Continue reading
Posted in Creatures