A Rainy Morning on Miyajima

 

Day 17 of my walk along the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage promised to be a wet one.

It had rained most of the night, and the rain still continued at first light.

Fortunately, I had a roof over my picnic bench and table in the small park.

There were some rental cabins in the park, and one group of young Japanese had been drinking heavily and made a fair bit of noise until the early hours. Every time I have been kept awake in a hotel room by rowdy guests they have been talking and shouting in Japanese, not noisy foreigners...

I was woken in the early hours by a small critter trying to take my small plastic bag of food. I think it may have been a weasel, but it had the bag in its teeth and wouldnt let go when I pulled it until I punched it on the nose....

I have no idea how scallops are farmed, but the piles of scallop shells suggest that it's not just oysters growing around Miyajima....unless scallop shells are used in some way....

A tunnel is the only land route around to this side of the island.

The locals are out and about before the tourists arrive, and don't seem at all phased by the rain....

The rain makes the color contrast a little stronger.....

Back past the two shrines from the evening before....

The mountains of Miyajima are obscured by clouds....

On the mainland, where my route now heads down the coast, it seems just as rainy..... the previous post in this series on walking the Chugoku Kannon Pilgrimage was the walk of this post in reverse yesterday evening