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Grand Meals from Tiny Galley
Şahin Çot, the cook and all-around crew on the Gulet Sadri Usta. proclaims proudly that his meal (and ours) is almost ready. Eight or ten vegetable dishes plus a meat stew or roast was the norm every evening on our voyage alomng the Turquoise Coast. The captain was a tomato farmer, so our vegetables were fresh and ripe.
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Turkish Flag on Turquoise Coast
The Turkish people are very proud of their young republic, founded by Kemal Ataturk. The Turkish flag was flown from every town square and from most public and private buildings. Of course, a Turkish boat always flies the flag with pride, and it makes a striking contrast in red and white against the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Golden Sunset on Turquoise Coast
Although turquoise was the predominate color along the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, sunrises and sunsets light the sky with all the rainbow of colors. Here, golden yellow bathes the seascape and hills around our chartered yacht's home port of Marmaris.
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Setting Sun at Hagi Castle
The sun sets through the late afternoon haze on a hot, muggy August day in Hagi, Japan. Locals attribute the usual deep-red sunset to minerals thrown into the air by the crashing waves on the rocky shore of the Sea of Japan only a few hundred meters away. Hagi itself sits on a protected harbor, with a calm, sandy beach.
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Hagi-yaki Museum
Shops everywhere in Hagi sell the local pottery, Hagi-yaki, which is rated by collectors as second only to raku in artistry and use in the traditional tea ceremony. The local pink clay gives a unique color to the underlying base, and the traditional white glaze is modified frequently by contemporary artists. Hagi's pottery museum offers a survey of several hundred years of fine pottery making, first brought to Japan from China to Hagi, whose artists then spread it all around Japan.
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Festival Lanterns
During the festival month of mid-July to mid-August, the streets of Hagi, Japan glow with thousands of lanterns. Traditionally, the Buddhist celebration of Obon uses lanterns to celebrate and honor ancestors, and street dances in traditional costumes break out in the streets at sundown.
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Rooflines of Shinto Temple
Hagi, Japan has numerous temples with original, unreconstructed buildings. Of little importance to industrial Japan, the city suffered no major fires, as in other cities and was spared destruction in the world wars.
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Rugged Coast of Southwestern Honshu
The ruggedly beautiful coastline of southwestern Honshu Island is worth the day-long journey from Tokyo, Kyoto or other major cities on the east coast of the island.
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Honoring Generations of Shoguns
Rows and rows of lanterns honor centuries of shoguns who ruled from Hagi Castle. This Shinto shrine is one of two in the city which serve to memorialize rulers who hired samurai warriors to maintain their rule and battle with other regional leaders for power and glory.
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Covered shopping street in Hagi, Japan
This covered street in Hagi, Japan provides a relatively cool place to shop for supplies and souvenirs in small, family-owned shops. Watch out for motor vehicles, including town buses, which still use this as a two-way thoroughfare
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Roger Ward has been a member since 21 January 2008 and goes by tacomasunset.
Currently in Tacoma, enjoying the mild summer breezes off Puget Sound..
I am a traveler who likes scenic spots, eco-tourism, adventure travel and voluntourism living in Tacoma, Washington, where Mount Rainier is a misty memory and occasional visitor in the winter or an everpresent luminescent beacon in the summer.
