Um...

...this doesn't look like Japan.


(King crabs...Osaka aquarium, taken last summer)

It's a cat...it's a bus...

...it's a cat bus!


Apologies for the poor picture quality - I only had my cell phone with me when this bus went by. I've seen it from the school window several times over the past two years, and I've always wanted to get a picture. I finally got the chance :)

Danger

There are apparently wild boar living on Mount Rokko. If there were any nearby on the day we climbed it, I'm sure they were frightened away by the noise of several hundred high school students long before we got anywhere near them.


Japanese word of the day - "wild boar" is "inoshishi"

Birds+

You know the place with all the birds?

There were also a couple (very tame) muskrats.