Today's Foto: The Mountain Trip"

We went to the usual hot spring from midnight. The typhoon was approaching Kyushu on that day. Therefore, it was raining heavily. It seems that many animals live in the mountain in Kyushu. I run a path through a wood by car, in order to go in the center in Kyushu. Then, some animals are certainly encountered. Hikosan located in the boundary in Fukuoka Prefecture and Oita Prefecture has many deer. We passed along a ravine called Yabakei on the way to Oguni in Kumamoto Prefecture. It is always wrapped in humidity and fog the night of Yabakei. We were running the path through a wood slowly, in order to look for an animal. Then, the big frog was discovered in the center of a road. It was a toad whose length is 20 cm. The body of the toad had a countless projection. I like a toad better than a bullfrog. A substance called SENSO is secreted from their body. A track runs this way fast. Therefore, I thought that it would get off a car and I would move a toad. Even if it pushed the toad at the point of shoes, it did not escape. When pushed several times, he walked slowly at last and it went to the side of the way. We left the spot. However, the toad was anxious...

The upper photograph was taken in the way back. The place is a village called Nakatsue. From a big bridge top. The mountain which clouds covered, and the river which became intense with rain. It is regrettable that the grandeur is not told from a photograph. I think this place is not added by human hand.






We arrived at the hot spring near the small country which can take a bath for 24 hours. The weather for a mountain changes immediately. It had stopped raining then. The hot water of the hot spring is transparent, and contains a sulphuric smell for a while. We did skilled the hot spring and enjoyed it fully. Compared with winter, it was slightly hot. But it is pleasant. It has relaxed very much. A hot spring is the highest meditation. There is also an opinion said that there is no effect of a hot spring. But I think it important to think that it is comfortable. The firefly was seen out of the window. It is romantic space. When you use a hot spring, I recommend to use an organic shampoo and soap. It is because you yourself feel it comfortable. Nobody was in the hot spring except us. It is because it was the toward morning of the weekday. The pan which steams food with steam is installed in the hot spring. The steam which comes out with sufficient vigor is used also for power generation. We put two eggs brought beforehand into the pan. The boiled egg with the soft yolk was made 6 minutes afterward. It is humid there and it is abundant in oxygen. The quiet hot spring in which nobody is present. It is the comfortable temperature in front of dawn. The steamed egg which is eaten in such the heart of the mountains was exceptional.



When a little bird begins to have twittered, we decided to have a nap. The sheet of my small car was toppled and it was made the flat. But if it is a perfect plane, there is nothing. If I go to sleep on my back, it will become a form where the back accompanied. It was uncomfortable although it was going to make various dress into the flat in piles. It continued raining heavily again. I sometimes awoke. Comfortable sleep was not obtained although the posture was changed. However, the temperature is best. It's greatest difficulty when I sleep in a car.



We awoke before noon. It is not fine as usual. Probably, we had awoke earlier in heat, if it was fine. We wiped the cloudy window and went in the direction of Aso. We had a meal in a small town called Oguni. We chose the small Japanese food restaurant. ingredients with various me -- the buckwheat noodles in which the agent rode were ordered. The wife placed an order for the local culinary specialties of the country called Dagojiru. The topping of wakame seaweed, the tempura of a shrimp, the tempura of a burdock root, beef, and the yam was carried out to my buckwheat noodles. With the wife's Dagojiru, a burdock root, a carrot, pork, tofu, the Welsh onion, the dumpling of flour, etc. were contained in bean paste soup.



We finished the meal and went in the direction to which it returns. These photographs were taken to the way back in the reservoir located in the boundary in Oita Prefecture and Fukuoka Prefecture. Nature washes the heart clean. If we look at the large-scale universe of being natural, we will forget a small trouble.



This photo taken by my wife.