Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 22 mm — ¹/2000 sec, f/7.1, ISO 640 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Up with the Sun

Picking up my “Camping with Anthony” story (about my camping trip with Anthony to Kotobikihama beach, in northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) from after the end of Day 1....

On the second day, the sun rose at 5:07am, and, unfortunately, that means that we did too.

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 24 mm — ¹/640 sec, f/3.8, ISO 500 — full exif & map — nearby photos
View from the Camp

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 200 mm — ¹/400 sec, f/5.6, ISO 500 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Someone Else Up Early Too
( the early bird catches the, er, fish )

We decided to talk a walk along a path to a big hill we could see along the coast, stopping by a big beach in between that the path dipped down to.

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 112 mm — ¹/1000 sec, f/5.3, ISO 800 — full exif & map — nearby photos
View Back to the Camp
( the tent visible in the center was in the same campground, just below ours )

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm — ¹/2500 sec, f/3.5, ISO 640 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Ocean At 6:05 AM

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 18 mm — ¹/45 sec, f/5, ISO 640 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Continuing Up The Hill

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 35 mm — ¹/640 sec, f/4.2, ISO 640 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Wilderness Rest Stop Full of Trash
( To Japan's great shame, this is extremely common here )

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 20 mm — ¹/320 sec, f/8, ISO 640 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Checking Out A Bug

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 200 mm — ¹/125 sec, f/5.6, ISO 500 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Pretty Poky Things

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 105 mm — ¹/50 sec, f/5.3, ISO 500 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Cup Full'o Pollen

As I mentioned yesterday, the amount of yellow pollen dust that the pine trees produced was staggering. Maybe some clever bees enlisted a spider's help to collect it. We saw these yellow webs all over.

While on the way back, we were passed by this man with a bucket of some kind of edible seaweed.

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR @ 70 mm — ¹/250 sec, f/5, ISO 500 — full exif & map — nearby photos
Returning With The Morning Harvest

We followed him for a while thinking we were returning to camp, until I noticed on my GPS that we were going the wrong way and corrected ourselves. I realize now by looking at the geoencoded location that we were on a path that curled away from camp toward a small village.

I always have my GPS unit with me when I have the camera, because I use it to later geoencode the photos (that is, to associate with a photo the latitude, longitude, and altitude at which it was taken, as well as a speed and bearing, if moving), so it was fortuitous in this case to keep me from getting lost.

Unfortunately, it failed me for most of this trip, because of the six days of the camping trip, it inexplicably saved no tracklog for days 3, 4, and 5, so I lost the ability to accurately geoencode all those photos. This is really disappointing, but worse, since Garmin has no idea why it might have happened, I have no faith that it won't randomly happen again. (It's happened to me before, but this was the first time that I could absolutely rule out user error, since I didn't really interact with the unit during the whole trip, other than to turn it on and off as I used the camera.)

Garmin responded quickly when I wrote them about it, and they're checking into it, but not having heard of this issue before, I don't hold much hope that they'll come up with a fix.