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Archive for the 'Kotobikihama Camping' Category

Camping at Kotobikihama Beach, in north-west Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Camping with Anthony: Final Wrapup
Wrapping up with a few final pics from my five-day camping trip with Anthony two months ago, the shot above is from the Ocean At 6:05 AM point of the morning walk on our first full day. The rain on Day 5 wasn't very fun, but all in all it was a great trip, and [...]
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Camping with Anthony: Day 5 (Sort of)
Day 4 of my camping trip with Anthony to Kotobikihama beach (northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan) was a day full of sun and sand, marred only by a few minutes of wind-driven terror (or, at least, wide-eyed surprise, as my tent almost got blown away). The night was pleasantly warm, as opposed to the freeze-your-toes-off cold [...]
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Camping with Anthony, Day 4
Day 4 of my camping trip with Anthony started early, as usual, but without the prospect of having to move the tent (as I did the previous day), I looked forward to a day of fun. Anthony's new friends had returned home the previous evening, but now he had May and Monet to play with, [...]
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Camping with Anthony, Day 3
Day two of my camping adventure with Anthony ended pleasantly, with new friends and a nice sunset. Day 3, however, started much earlier and much less pleasantly than I would have expected – right at midnight – when some rude family burst into the campground with loud voices and bright lights, searching for a spot [...]
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Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Sunset with New Friends
I ended my previous post about day 2 of camping with Anthony with the story that we'd returned from dinner in time for the sunset. When we got out of the car at the campsite, Anthony was playing with a superhero toy of some sort that he got at the store. (Because camping is special, [...]
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Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Getting Wet
Picking up my "Camping with Anthony" story from after our early-morning walk on Day 2.... The campground is on a cliff overlooking part of Kotobikihama (northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan), a large beach more than a mile long, with many distinct sections. We spent the rest of the morning, and the early part of the afternoon, [...]
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Camping with Anthony, Day 2: Early-Morning Walk
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. We decided to talk a walk along a path to [...]
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Something Fishy About This Bird
I've been so overwhelmed with built-up stuff to do since returning from camping with Anthony that I've only just started really looking in detail through the photos I took, and came across this interesting shot. At the end of the second day, Anthony was out on some rocks just off the beach and playing with [...]
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Camping with Anthony: Day 1
We started our camping trip last week, May 1st, heading out at about 11am for what should have been about a 3.5 hour drive. Unfortunately, there was some kind of parade that caused the road I happen to have taken to be intermittently closed, turning roads in eastern Kyoto into a parking lot. It took [...]
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Back From Five Days of Camping
I mentioned the other day that I was going to take Anthony camping for the first time, and I did. We just got back this afternoon. I'll write more about the whole experience another day (one that I don't wake up at 5am), but the location was a campground on a cliff overlooking Kotobikihama beach [...]
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Going Camping for a Few Days
Fumie grew up going camping several times a year, and has fond memories of it. We're not really the "outdoorsy" type, but we thought it'd be nice to give Anthony the same experience, so we're heading camping for a few days. We borrowed her folks' tent, and her dad and I (and Anthony, of course) [...]
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