Autumn Sea
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The word from the fishermen is that there was no summer this year. The water turned straight to an autumn sea — cool, dark and the jellyfish are in. This probably means andou-gurage (they tend to swarm). Andou-gurage have transparent bodies a bit larger than a golf ball and trail four willowy red tentacles. They look like the squid things from The Matrix.
For some reason I’m not much affected by them (apart from a mild salty sting — I dived face-first into a pod of them once in near Kamakura and didn’t have a mark on me) but some people develop nasty welts that take hours to disappear. Regardless, they don’t make for great company in the water.
I’m not getting a great feeling for our trip to Shikinejima, but we’ll make of it what we can. We’re going to spend a week camping on the island so blogging will probably not be a happening thing for a little while.
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Posted to General Rants • 2003.08.21 (Thu) • 20:46
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Posted by David 2003.08.22, 00:54
I took a camping trip to Shikinejima last summer. I wrote about it here. Have fun!
Posted by L. B. Hughes 2003.10.29, 20:23
Wrong. The year of no summer, at least in the mid-Atlantic states, was 1816.
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