#Hashigui rocks

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Hashigui-iwa Rock, Wakayama - Japan

[merpmonde]

Some life in the rock pools of Hashigui-iwa! The crabs in the first picture were very small, but the one hiding in the second picture was more sizeable. I forget how big, but it was big enough to observe scuttling for shelter as I approached. Closest match on iNaturalist appears to be the Striped Shore Crab, which grows up to 5 cm.

The local birds of prey, likely kites, were also out, surveying the area.

[thisworld1]

Hashigui Rock, Japan. Photography by のりしか/鹿の国のフォトグラファー📸 @norishika135

[kyotodreamtrips]

The Hashigui-iwa Rocks of Wakayama prefecture are a mysterious but naturally occurring picturesque set of around 40 large and small rocks which look like they were once the posts to an old bridge. Found off the coast of Wakayama prefecture and stretching for some 850 meters (2788 ft).

[guiajapao]

Rochas Hashigui iwa

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Hashigui Iwa rock

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Hashigui-iwa Rocks

橋杭岩,和歌山県,日本

[ymmtknt]

#landmark #flower #red #green #bluesky #nankikushimoto #wakayama #japan (Hashigui Iwa - Rocks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIXsIqEH1oC/?igshid=6q283a1ysjn6

[purling]

hashigui rocks, wakayama

夜明け前の橋杭岩 ＠和歌山県串本町

[dsandrvk]

Saturday, September 21, 2019 Kushimoto (Kii-Katsuura)

We took a train down the coast about 1/2 hour to the very southern end of Honshu. Like yesterday, the weather was a bit unsettled, with winds up to 25 mph and glowering skies, which was perfect for the wild coast. A little bus goes out from the train station to near the south point on a road that made the ones in Cornwall look wide - there was a lot of polite stopping and waiting for the other vehicle to find a way to pass by. At the various points on the very rugged coast were viewpoints and in two places there were ways to get down to the rubble and stone beaches and see the crashing waves up close. We found a perfect lunch spot on the wall of a small harbor that didn't look frequently used. The entrance was extremely narrow and immediately as one would motor out there were huge swells and many large rocks to avoid. Not something to navigate in the seas we had today. Of course there is a shrine up here, too, as well as a lighthouse. One would want to stay a good ways off shore with all the rocks.

It turns out this is yet another national park, and there is also a geopark out here with a wonderful information center explaining about the volcanic origins and also the underlying sedimentary rocks. There were also exhibits on the relationship with whales along this coast (very mixed with both slaughter and whale watching), as well as the pilgrimages around here.

One of the advantages to my learning the Katakana alphabet is that I can puzzle out the words that mimic English. This observation tower has two characters that say ta-wa on it.

There is a huge grass lawn in from the cliffs and I don't know if the sign says no golfing, or don't go there because someone may be golfing. This country is pretty golf crazy - there are driving ranges everywhere, although I haven't seen many actual courses. Land is at such a premium here that golfing is quite expensive. I had a conversation with a gentleman who works for Sony while waiting for the train several days ago. He had very good English and had worked in the US and Europe. He mentioned that he loved to golf and that it was so inexpensive in the states. We got to talking about where we were from, and it turned out he lived in Northbrook (Illinois) in the 80's for his three year stint in the US. Small world.

We took the bus back to town and then another bus a short ways north to the Hashigui-iwa rocks - a line of sharp, pointy rocks that almost parallel the shore. When we first arrived it was close to raining, but within a few minutes the sun came out briefly. The surf behind the rocks was fairly wild, and sometimes almost crashed over the top of them.

Back in town we walked to the fish market, which unfortunately was closed for the day. There are lots of renderings of tuna everywhere in town. The picture of the female pilgrims was on the wall in the train station. I really don't know that I would want to tackle the slippery rock steps in those shoes and I would definitely overheat in the clothes. But it would be fun to play dress up in the clothes on a cool day.

Unlike yesterday, we were definitely off the tourist trail today. There were a couple of tour busses of Japanese at the main overlooks but no Westerners. Considering that this is one of the most spectacular coastlines I have seen, I wonder why it's not more popular. Of course, we are not near any of the large cities, and far from the superfast trains. And there are so many other more well-known places in Japan.

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at Hashigui Iwa - Rocks https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx7SWl6FE9g/?igshid=1d8gy6r4xxjer

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Hashigui-iwa rock formation in Wakayama Japan [oc] [4032x3024] via /r/EarthPorn https://ift.tt/2Fcpfd8

[merpmonde]

Hashigui-iwa

Since the news took us back to Kushimoto, it's worth looking at another of the town's attractions, besides the southernmost point of Honshû and the nearby lighthouse. Up the coast is a remarkable rock formation known as Hashigui-iwa, which one could translate as "bridge column rocks", as if a viaduct used to settle on top of them.

These aren't standing stones in the archaeological sense of the term like Stonehenge (a popular spot for the winter solstice that also just happened), they weren't moved into a line and raised. Instead, they were originally an incrustation of magma in an otherwise less hard soil. The magma cooled off before becoming lava, and the ocean eroded the sediment around it. This would have created a wall of igneous rock, up to 15 m high and nearly a kilometre long. The wall was then smashed by a tsunami, leaving these tall rocks behind, and a beach of debris.

In the background of this photo, we see the bridge between the Shionomisaki peninsula and the island of Ôshima, where another lighthouse and monument to Japanese-Turkish friendship is located. There's a story behind that (the wreck of the Ertugrul), and I wish that was a segue, but I didn't visit Ôshima. On a hot day, energy isn't limitless so I had to choose...

[chancearnold]

We walked about 6km at about 2am to see the sunrise on these rocks. (at Hashigui Iwa - Rocks) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrhxT6VB0sq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nw92125g2ll9

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In The Field: Working The Scene #330

I want to hear your questions about landscape photography. What is the thing you struggle with the most when approaching a scene? Is it composition, identifying your subject, lens choice, something else? Leave a comment below or send me a message. 

Last summer I spent a few days in Kushimoto, Japan and I spent a lot of time with the Hashigui rocks. I recently reviewed video footage from one of my photo sessions there. Join me at this location and see the variety of compositions I framed up. I kept working the scene, looking for different, new, or interesting angles. 

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Hashigui-iwa Rock #visitwakayama #wakayama #Tonication #YJTinWakayama วันฝนพรำ (at Kushimoto, Wakayama)