honhosi

honhosi, originally uploaded by vibromama.

Early the following day, we finally met some people at the Honhoshi beach, where a grandiose attempt was made to turn a natural beach of smooth round pebbles into a tourist attraction. Cresting the low narrow isthmus on foot revealed an expansive new park, which had been invisible from the Pacific side. A small group of touring climbersc was just waking up to the early morning’s bright sunshine, while one or two elderly citizens walked briskly for exercise upon the sidewalks already overgrown here and there with dense weeds. The presence of these few humans did very little to break the solitude of this expansive open ground.