I Beached Myself.

I often go to Shichigahama for an evening lesson; yesterday, I had one there in the afternoon. Sooo, afterwards I head to nearby Shobutahama or Shobuta Beach.

Not a bad looking beach. It formally closed last weekend though there were a few stragglers like me wondering around.

I saw a colony of seagulls (above) and a few cormorants (I think) below.

A couple of wacky pano shots.

There were of course a few body surfers and you can see them if you squint.

The only action was parasailer (?) who took a few passengers up for a birds-eye view. (I wasn't brave enough to try it.)

A huge tanker and if you look way up, you can see our flyboy.

I strolled along the beach (as seen in the video) until I came upon an upsetting sight.

As cool as it is to see a sea turtle up close, the only reason is because this dude has eaten his last plastic bag. According to the lifeguard, he was probably killed in last night's nasty waves for they also found a dolphin beached earlier that day. The authorities had been called to haul him away.

If you look at that top picture, there's a little restaurant there in which I ate lunch. I splurged and had a canny kani pasta with a nori salad. 

The place is called SeaSaw and it's worth checking out if you're in the neighbourhood.

Since I'm talking about the Sea, I saw a movie called, Meg: the Monsters 2 which you may have guessed is the Japanese title for Meg 2: The Trench-mouth (or something like that.) It has more Megalodon-sharks, dinosaurs called Snappers, and a Kraken yet is somehow really boring since it focuses on the Humans for far too long. But don't worry, it'll do really well in China so we're certain to get a third one.

While there, I saw a couple of nice posters for the new TMNT movie. I liked the preview, so I might just check it out in a few weeks.

Here's a copy of the flyer.

 

Finally, last weekend I ventured out to Morioka to sell a few items (I actually made a profit!) and en route there, stopped off in Kurihara for a mini-Matsuri. The area has one of my favourite mascots, this big anthropomorphized stack of hay.

I knew it'd be stuck in a hot car all day, so I didn't even attempt to catch one of these imori (newts).

I'll finish off with me consuming a fish on a stick...

Sea you later...

UPDATE! I just discovered that August 30th is National Beach Day. So that seems apropos. 

The Countdown Begins...

I've had a heck of a busy day and so it's just a few minutes before bedtime, so I'll have to make my first entry in the Countdown to Halloween 2019 a short one. Click that link and surf around especially if you want to join in the Countdown. Or click here to find out this year's Cryptkeepers. I try and visit at least one participant per day and my first go to guy is always at the Wonderful Wonderblog.

Because I'm rushed, I don't have time for a movie tonight. So a trailer will have to suffice.



By an awesome coincidence, this just happens to be my Scary Movie Pamphlet entry today.

The cover folds out to this...

and this on the underside.

Here are some facts about Megalodon. For best results, learn Japanese.

The cast. Rainn was, in particular, way over the top. That is not a bad thing.

Above: the best cast member (on the left).
Below: the worst.

It isn't really all that scary a movie yet this closeup of Jason is frightening.

Some production shots.

Round 1 is vs. Meg. Here are a dozen more Shark rounds.

The following is a list of Shark-related movies starting with Jaws. Can you name them all?

Open wide...

Today's UFO Catcher/ Halloween treat is a Jack figure that I tried to win. I didn't.

OOH! So close!



At school today, one of the teachers was making a Tanuki mask for the Grade 2 kids' Festival. Of course, I had to try it on. The Tanuki King!

Below is one of the King's underlings.

Finally, this postcard is the first entry in my main feature of the blog this month. Can anyone hazard a guess as to what it is?

The answer tomorrow...