Kinkasan and Friends April, 2001
These are some
miscellaneous photos taken during my mom's visit the last week of
March and the beginning of April.
Kinkasan
Island. Kinkasan is a lovely little island full of deer and
some monkeys. The island
is a mountain, and besides nature, the only thing there is
the shrine at the top. And a souvenir shop.
Its a good two hour trip from Shiogama, but worth it at least
once, if only because the temperature
was a good 10 degrees warmer than the mainland. The
deer were a little scraggly since it seemed to
be molting season, but they are quite friendly.
especially if you have food and you offer to scratch
their horns. We had good fun trekking through the
wilderness to find the monkeys, even though we
only saw three.
