huge red trees....

Miyajima Torii

This magnificent looking thing is actually huge trees painted red plonked in the water as an entrance to the shrine behind it. Low tide sees a flurry of activity in the form of locals collecting shellfish and the occasional deer wandering round looking for tidbits or leftovers. High tide sets the Tori (the tree contraption) in a pool of gently lapping seawater which according to many is a really cool sight, but as yet a sight unseen by yours truely.
So hows this for a halfpie crack? Not bad I reckon! Still gotta figure out all this bold/italic/underlined milarky for my wee iBook so I can add a bit of "flavour" to these posts!!

and so it begins........

......it feels I've been in the Dark Ages or left behind somehow in the bloggers revolution of cyberspace, so this is my attempt to drag my arcahic butt into the enlightened era.
I intend to have a few false starts and halfpie cracks at all this but by the time I get on the road to China I'll have all my shit sorted.... fingers crossed...