August 8 Part 2: Snorkeling and Sleeping
(continued from yesterday's post)
After surviving our ill-advised beach trip, we set out to return to the bay we originally departed from. The trip went smoothly (figuratively, the swells were still rather large), and we didn't see any more shark fins. :D At the mouth of the bay, our guide took us through a natural archway that was sheltered from the waves, as consolation for the fact that we couldn't go into any caves today (which we normally would have on our tour). It was still quite cool, and it made me quite sad that about missing the caves. D:
On the opposite side of the bay, we pulled into a nook to snorkel in much clearer water, as our guide said we had time. The clearer water was very nice, as it meant we were able to see some coral, a larger variety of fish (including some pufferfish), some sea cucumbers, a couple of wierd anemones, and some beautiful shells. One such beautiful shell was handed to Jiuna by our guide, and it appeared to be empty. However, after some time holding the shell, a large hermit crab popped out onto her hand, and she unfortunately smacked a rock with the other hand rather hard. >_< She got a hefty couple of gouges from that that she used some polysporin on and had to dig at with a needle for a bit when we got to the ryokan. D:
When getting back into our kayaks to return to the beach we departed from, Jiuna took the only spill of the day trying to mimic some complicated backward-sliding manoeuvre that the guide showed her, but quite out of line with our luck so far, she wasn't hurt (hooray!). We got back to the beach without incident, and loaded up the kayaks onto our guide's car before being driven to the ryokan.
We checked into our fancy-schmancy ryokan in T-shirts, wet swim trunks and sandals, much to Jiuna's embarrassment, but we didn't find any tangible indication of displeasure at this during our stay haha. We got our stuff and selves washed in our room and went down to dinner.
Our dinner was a lovely assortment of sashimi and other washoku (traditional Japanese food). There was a rather interesting candle-like contraption that used some blue fuel cone to heat an iron cooking surface, which we used to cook our Louis Vuitton. O_O Apparently the pork we were eating was some kind of brand-name pork called LYB-ton, with the ton meaning pork, and LYB being an acronym for the place it's farmed. It was very tasty, but most fatty-and-vaguely-salty fresh-cooked meat is. >_< Jiuna and I agreed that the thin pieces were better than the thicker ones, which is unfortunately in agreement with LV's unhealthy influence on young women's body ideals. D:
After dinner we planned to go to the onsen attached to our hotel, which had a beautful view of the typ(h)oon waves crashing against the cliffs nearby, but Jiuna had some sunstroke or something, and was reduced to flaking out on the floor of our room and drinking Dakara (a bit like gatorade without the atrocious colouring and suspect flavouring). She fell asleep quite early, and I decided I wasn't going to go to the onsen by myself, as it didn't really seem fair, given that she did ALL the research and booking for the place. Besides, the onsen is actually open to the public for 1000円-ish during the day, so if I find myself in Izu again for whatever reason, I could just go if it turns out to gnaw at me for the rest of my stay here.
Anyways, I'd best get to bed, as we have a very full day tomorrow. We're going to go to Comiket again (and apparently Sunday is the craziest day), and we're going to meet Osamu for dinner as well. Plus, it's both Jiuna and Nathaniel's last full day in Japan, so I expect we will be burning the midnight oil in Akiba. ;D
Night!
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