Day 11 - Starting out in the rain

I did not sleep well. I kept waking up, feeling hot and feverish. When morning finally came, I got up and discovered that Ian had set the room temperature at 25 degrees, because he thought that the laundry that he had done would not dry. The room was hung with clothes. They were everywhere, but they were dry, so I guess it was worth it. It would have been a huge problem if everything had still been wet. There were some other reasons why I had not slept well. The pillows were Japanese style, which means that they were full of sand and every time I moved the sand made a really loud noise. Also there was light coming into the room from outside, lights we could not turn off or block out.

The forecast was for rain all day and it had already started when we went down for breakfast. The owners were very nice. They gave each of us two big rice balls to eat as lunch - apparently they do this for everyone - and then they gave us two mikans (a fruit like a tangerine) each and a towel because it was raining. They were so nice that for the first time I took pictures of them, and they took pictures of us.

We left the lodgings and started on our day's walk. Luckily, considering the weather, it was going to be a short day, less than 15 kilometers. We walked along a road that paralleled a long thin bay that was extremely pretty in the gray light.
In the bay there were little islands and I suspect that the whole place was very good for fishing, if it was not too polluted.
Most of the way, we were in sight of the ocean, but once in a while we had to turn inland and follow a river until we reached a bridge that allowed us to cross over to the other shore. This is Ian in his red Gortex rainsuit. We had just crossed the bridge in the background.