Ian's photos 15

To be honest I do not remember what this was. I may have been a little Buddhist shrine or it may have been a fire alarm. In any case you can see how low the clouds were. Also the walking stick, which represents Kobo Daishi so you have to wash the bottom every night, is Ian's. The covering at the top broke and kept sliding down. It have the advantage that no one ever took it by mistake at the places where we stayed.
This is two little Bodhisattvas in front of the temple at the top of the highest mountain.
This shows the trees around the Bodhisattvas that have been trimmed in the Japanese style. Nature is seldom left natural, if at all possible. Trees and gardens have extensive work done on them to improve over the way they would look if left as is.
On the way down the back side of the mountain we walked through a bamboo grove. In the summer these are almost always full of mosquitoes but in March there was no problem.
The Henro Trail took us down through these mountains. We more or less followed the valley and then turned off to the left and headed for the ocean, which we reached in about three days. The Trail would go down hill for a ways and then go up again to cross a ridge line into the next valley. It was a constant up and down that made walking quite tiresome.