The view from my "office"

[MARTINE]

@VPS
I am sorry to hear you are unwell. Wishing you all the very best and that you have a dream trip planned to sustain the challenges

With scenery like that, I could probably cope for a few days and all cool down at night as well. I’d be happy doing anything that was pain-free and wasn’t lying in bed or sitting in a chair at the moment.

 

[MARTINE]

It looks hot though.

Yes
Finished sailing and now poolside looking from hotel garden to one of the stages doing warm up
…. Waiter……..!!!

 

[drron]

From our mobile office on road 647 at the Michi-no-eki at Nakonbetsu.

 

[MARTINE]

Yes
Finished sailing and now poolside looking from hotel garden to one of the stages doing warm up
…. Waiter……..!!!

 

[Bindibuys]

With scenery like that, I could probably cope for a few days and all cool down at night as well. I’d be happy doing anything that was pain-free and wasn’t lying in bed or sitting in a chair at the moment.

You will be up dancing again soon.

 

[Pushka]

With scenery like that, I could probably cope for a few days and all cool down at night as well. I’d be happy doing anything that was pain-free and wasn’t lying in bed or sitting in a chair at the moment.

So you have some spare time now to start sorting your next trip. I'd allow a few months recovery though. But it will happen.

 

[drron]

Sarafutsu Hokkaido. another Michi-no-eki.






A light show inside this structure.




A net out.








This was erected by a former fisherman who after 10 years fishing decided to stop and learn about nature. He established a school. This monument was built in 1958. All that in the words of google translate.

 

[VPS]

@VPS
I am sorry to hear you are unwell. Wishing you all the very best and that you have a dream trip planned to sustain the challenges

Thanks for the good wishes. Joint replacement and I’m not very good at not doing anything

 

[VPS]

You will be up dancing again soon.

Do you think so - I couldn’t dance before

So you have some spare time now to start sorting your next trip. I'd allow a few months recovery though. But it will happen.

It is probably the pain killers but my brain is mush and I have the concentration span of a goldfish

 

[Pushka]

Do you think so - I couldn’t dance before

It is probably the pain killers but my brain is mush and I have the concentration span of a goldfish

I reckon it takes more weeks than Doctors care to mention to get over a general anaesthetic.

 

[Stewey]

View from my "Office"
King River Road, near Wyndham, NE Western Australia

 

[drron]

A little out of order but today's office at Wakkanai Park Hokkaido. monuments for the former Japanese inhabitants of South Sakhalin. The Russians attacked on 11th of August. But on 15th August they kept advancing taking all of Sakhalin and then invading the Kurile Islands. FDR and Churchill had given these to Stalin. So to the monuments. first in memory of the Sakhalin Normal School 50 years after it opened in the 1930s.




Tip if you want to translate Japanese on a picture and faced with this just rotate image to the left and read like a normal page.
Now a very sad memorial to the 9 maidens. Telephonists at the Maoka exchange as it was then.


Their message


Their final message - everyone this is the end. Farewell,farewell. They the suicided by taking potassium Cyanide pills. The date 20th August 5 days after WW2 officially ended.


Then the memorial to all who died and those who lost their homes in South Sakhalin.




Although the Russians say only 13% of the Japanese POWs died the Japanese records record 520000 who were in Manchuria, South Sakhalin and the Kurils who disappeared that August. Of those 348000 have not been accounted for. most from South Sakhalin were sent to Siberian Labour camps.
Japanese POWs in western countries were repatriated to Japan with in a few months. From Russia they released ~1500 in 1946. The last official repatriation was 1956.

 

[Port Power]

View from my "Office"
King River Road, near Wyndham, NE Western Australia

Are you out with Coral Expeditions? Such a beautiful area.

 

[JohnM]

Are you out with Coral Expeditions? Such a beautiful area.

Too far inland, I think you'll find.

 

[Port Power]

Too far inland, I think you'll find.

Oh, yes. The Prison Tree, horrible history, so east Kimberly. At first glance I thought it was The Mermaid boab. Great country anyway, @Stewey , I hope your are enjoying your trip.

 

[Stewey]

Are you out with Coral Expeditions? Such a beautiful area.

It certainly is spectacular and beautiful, I’m here with work but I wish I could spend some time to truly appreciate the beauty

 

[drron]

Cape Soya the northern most point in Hokkaido. just 45 Km from Russia.


Two volunteers take your photo. costs nothing and they give you a decorated scallop shell as a memento. lovely fellow who we talked to for a while as we waited in line. he had always wanted to go to Australia and had a good knowledge of our geography.


You could just make out Sakhalin Island but it doesn't show on the photo.


This monument is to local composer Yoshida Hiroshi who wrote a song about Cape Soya in 1976 which did well in Japan.

 

[Stewey]

Oh, yes. The Prison Tree, horrible history, so east Kimberly. At first glance I thought it was The Mermaid boab. Great country anyway, @Stewey , I hope your are enjoying your trip.

Most definitely

 

[MARTINE]

The man was on FIRE!! 60 years old and a physical two hours of pure magic as the sun set over Lake Geneva

 

[MARTINE]

More magic