Aug 15, 2009

sliding on the river

Last sunday, i went to river down on canoe with my dad. We have our own canoe at a camp ground neighboring River Nakagawa, in Gozenyama village, Ibaraki prefecture, about 2 hours north from Tokyo metropolitan area, by car.




This is me and one of our boat that i always use.

I should have took this opportunity to presume my brand new bright green helmet that i just bought in San Francisco for skateboarding, but i just forgot bring that... mmm




This is my dad.

Some staffs of the camp ground always give us a ride to our start point, loading a ban with kayaks and us.

This day they took us to the 25kms pint.



These are our snacks on the way going down the flow!!!



This small local appears almost the last part of our 25kms voyage and we always look forward to stop here to enjoy this delicious treat from river.



These river-fish called "ayu" ( i think in english "sweetfish"), this is before they convert in our snacks...





This is how local people fish "ayu".
"ayu" fishing is only allowed at summer season so we saw many of these wooden boat with local fishermans.
These fish can only live in very clean water, so it makes me feel little bit relieved to see these people fishing because it says that "ayu" can still stay in this river...



It was cloudy day with little shower sometimes but it was perfect condition on this hot summer season.

As living in a metropolitan concrete jungle, it's a wonderful break time to breathe deep in green mountains and trees everywhere, discovering birds coming and going, splashing along flows of the river, tasting fresh air of nature.

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