Archives for August, 2006
2006.08.18 (Fri)
Picturing the moon
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My daughter taking a picture of the moon on Yakushima.
Eijyuusha
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As of about 1:20 p.m. last Wednesday afternoon, I am a permanent resident — 永住者 — of the great nation of Japan.
2006.08.15 (Tue)
Yakushima forest
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A good example of the type of forest you see on Yakushima just under a kilometre or so above sea level. (Now with desktop versions.)
Planet Earth: now with more obesity than hunger
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Anyone inclined to a sense of genuinely absurd injustice will not be surprised to learn that the obese now outnumber the hungry.
2006.08.14 (Mon)
Osaka Steamship #4
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My least favourite of the bunch, but why exactly?
2006.08.13 (Sun)
Two onigawara from Yakushima
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Of course you knew you were going to see onigawara from Yakushima
Specially trained attack medaka
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I noticed they seem to go after the larvae that give them a bit of a chase, ignoring the easy ones right in front of them. They’re sporting about it, and not unaware of the thrill of the hunt, bless their carnivorous little souls. I hope they prosper and multiply (within balance).
Vigourously ongoing
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Imagine a roughly circular granite island 12 kilometres in diameter which rises to a series of peaks approaching 2 kilometres above sea level, the highlands of which receive, on average, 8,000 milimetres of rain a year (yes, that’s 8 metres of rain annually). You’d expect the water and the rock to come to some pretty interesting arrangements over the millennia. On Yakushima they most certainly have, and negotiations are vigourously ongoing.
2006.08.05 (Sat)
Osaka Steamship #3 – let the vulture soar
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Speaking of islands and journeys by sea, we reach the halfway point in the Osaka Steamship series with this postcard, certainly, to my eyes, the weirdest of the bunch.
Yakushima here we come
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Where the trees have “the power of words”
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