Fishing in Minamichita

At the beginning of July, together with 2 lab members, I went fishing to the tip of the peninsula (south of Nagoya) - the one with the Centrair airport on it.

Getting ready for fishing in front of the school:

 Found a bird's nest near the kombini we stopped at:

 We took a car there so it was quite exciting for me - my first car ride in Japan:

 Underground highway - I always biked on top of it... never before seen the bottom:

 Highway on top - can only see tops of buildings:

 Leaving the city:

 Highways in Japan look similar to North America... only on the other side:

 Bamboo forests:

 Palm trees:

 A Japanese minivan:

 Rice fields:

 Finally made it to the Minamichita town:

 Farmer in rice field:

 You can see the ocean:

 We stopped at this large home center (basically large store that has everything) to get some supplies, like seats, and a BBQ:

 Nice layers or rock:

 Finally arrived at a fishing dock in the town:

 There were already many people fishing:

 The ocean:

 My first time seeing wild jellyfish:

 And star fish (these ones were rather cooked):

 These things seem to be all over.. protecting from waves or something.. not sure...

 The fishing is slightly different but in general the same idea:

 Resting:

 Preparing the tiny shrimp mixture for one particular type of fish (that we didn't actually catch):

 Finally a catch:

 And another:

 These fish are rather small...

 Ready for a huge fish!

 In the distance, the hills are on the Shinojima island:

 So many fisherman:

 Caught a starfish:

 They are pretty hard:

 For lunch, we left the fishing stuff at the dock and went to a local restaurant:

 Large birds of prey were flying around a hill:

 The restaurant was awesome - definitely the best seafood I've ever tried.  These are all for one person.

 Some kind of shrimp:

 crab:

 some sashimi:

 fried shrimp:

 crab leftovers:

 fried salted shrimp:

 Nice peace of cooked Tai:

 This is how the place looked like:

 Our table:

 A large Tai display for an upcoming festival:

 A panda:

 I wouldn't have guessed but this was a fishing store where we bought the bait and other things:

 Better view of the islands:

 Getting a bit late:

 But still fishing:

 Sun is setting:

 A rare catch - Tai:

 We were able to see the fireworks from a festival on one of the islands:

 Night fishing:

 The day's catch.  I managed to catch that octopus which was really funny since I thought it was a fish.

 We then found a nearby beach to do a BBQ:

 Fish cleaning starts:

 Some local veggies:

 The BBQ heating up:

 BBQing the fish:

 And veggies:

The food was excellent.  First time I had straight from the water fish to eat like that.  The octopus was delicious!  Really nice time fishing!