May 5, 2008

• Nokonoshima

  Today we took the ferry from Fukuoka City to a nearby island, Nokonoshima, to see what we could see.  From the ferry, one gets on a bus and goes to the opposite side of the island, the site of a beautiful flower park.

  

  I am a sucker for living things.  Here are five of them above our heads at the ferry dock.

  

  Here comes our ferry.

  

  All Aboard!

  

  Chugging over to Nokonoshima Island

  

  Ready to disembark and get on the bus to the other side of the island?

  

  See, I told you it was lovely!  The ladies at the visitor center are making announcements that the sea hawks are eyeing everyone's picnic lunches from on high, and please don't encourage them by flinging bits of lunch into the air.

  

  Boy's Day holiday carp streamers

  

  The Visitor Center

  

  

  

  

  

  There was also a bunny petting area, but the bunnies were only interested in edible interaction.

  

  Don't touch me!

  

  Happiness is...

  

  Baby Bunny

  There were goats as well, but the only decent picture that I got is indecent and will have small children asking embarassing questions, so I can't put it up.  I had an altercation with some stupid people who seemed to think it was all right to feed the goats tissue when there were proper goat snacks provided in a vending machine.  I was kind of appalled, but the fellow who was passing the tissues out to other people to feed to the goats stated that he had seen tissue given to goats as standard fare in zoos and that it was perfectly all right.  I had made my point, and did not bother arguing with him, as testosterone tends to boil over when male idiotic behaviour is challenged.

  

  These were nice.  I may get some if we go again.

  

  Fukuoka City as seen from Nokonoshima

  

  

  

  

  Time to head for the ferry back.  What are these folks doing?

  

  It's low tide, and they are digging for little clams.

  

  Another view of Fukuoka

  

  All Aboard!!

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