Monday, April 30, 2007

Road trip with Darren Day 3

Day 3
From Kofu we headed over some amazing bridges and the island of Awajishima to reach Shikoku. As we were crossing the final bridge at Naruto we managed to cross at the same time as the Naruto Whirlpools were whirling. Darren held the steering wheel for a while so I could look too.

We spent the next several hours driving over mountain passes & heading south to reach the coast road of the Pacific Ocean. We stopped at a viewing point of a cape in Tokushima prefecture, I was taking a self-poprtrait of us & along
came a car. A man jumped out of the passenger seat & offered to take this photo then jumped back in the car & it took off. You can't actually see the cape in this photo but it was beautiful!

Along the long & hairy drive we found a shrine perched on the cliff top overlooking the spectacular ocean. On the way down we discovered this huge hole. Can you see Daz down there on the bottom right!

This evening we camped in the cute seaside town of Shirahama in Kochi Prefecture. The camp site was right at the beach complete with entertainment from the local youths playing on their bikes. We grabbed some ready to eat fare from a local shop & some beer & watched the sunset & moon rise by the beach. It was by far the best value camp site we stayed at...

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