From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

Today , we did barbecue with wife's parents living near our home. Today's weather forcast were 60% rainy bit we were lucky that it didn't rain. This time, I used this item I'd bought the other day. It helps burning charcoal easily like below so I tried. Indeed, it is very easy to fire charcoal. I bought it about 2000 yen and it is a foldaway one so it's very good. There are some improvement points. two barbeque is better. This time I used charcoal booster written above so if I brought second barbeque, I can use this for charcoal booster while cooking at another barbeque. It's better to check if charcoal go to pieces before doing barbecue. Our charcoal I bought about 1 years before have went to pieces ! towel is neccesary. I sweated heavily today. enough water is neccesary. we all were thirsty.

Our air bed for camp was broken due to air leakage so I tried to fix it. This is a small pin hole. This is too small so it takes about 1-2 hours to leak air. Using mending tape which I bought it 100 yen. 

We went to camping on 10-11 Sep. 10th Sep was saturday so after finishing regular swiming lesson of my son, we left osaka about 4:30 PM, arrived mutu-yazaki camping site about 8 o'clock. Making tento, eating box lunch, we went to regular hot-spring place " hotel kai-tourou ", which is about 10 min. driving, then went back to camping site. This night, there were terrible happing. We placed a handy-type mosquito coil (katori-senkou) inside tento and this is a false-bottom type so I put 3 mosquito coil inside it. After sleeping, we smell strange,waiking up and found smoke was very strong(almost burning) ! We were almost choked with mosquito coil's smoke. So I seldom slept this night.(my son slept well)

I bought Coleman XP Hexa Tarp/S. I have Penta ? Tarp but it is a little small. So I searched more big one, and I found it. As I happend to go to himaraya sports shop, I found it discounted so I bought it (\11,000 including tax). One month before, I tried it but it is not beautifully constructed. So I watched this and tried again today. There are several points.  - First, spread the sheet also poles on the earth, with pole's legs spreading.  - Second, connect ropes to the poles and the sheet. Ropes connecting with poles should be pegged on the earth.  - Third, pull up poles and adjust pole leg's width, also adjusting rope's length.  - Then put pole's legs a little inside, and line of the top of the tarp became beautiful.  - And last, pegged other 4  ropes on the earth.       The silhouette of this coleman's tarp is very beautiful. I liked it.

Second day, I got up at 5 am and it was cool, not cold but a little cold morning. I boilded water for coffee and morning soup. After eating breakfast and pulled down a tent, we walked around there. We climbed up to the hill for big stone called "asobi ishi", but after walking up about 20 min., we found big honey comb in front of the stone ! After enjoying walking, we left there and drove around tango peninsula. First, we went to kumihama, beautiful small village. Then drove through Route 178 to north-east, then south. We reached to ine where many houses were in front of the sea. These houses have ship garages inside houses. Then final distination,amano-hashidate. At first, I planed to go to maizuru but when we arrived there, it was 3:40 pm, so changed plan. Amano-hashidate was large so there are 2 spot, north and south, and both have ropeway. We walked around north erea and it was very b

Sep. 19-23 is 5 days holiday (called silver week), so I planed to make an overnight trip to somewhere near here. There were several plan, going to dinosaur museum at fukui, or driving to amano-hashidate through newly constructed kyoto-highway, staying hotel or camping. But when we checked hotel or camping erea, allmost all of them were already reserved. But at 19, I happend to find small camping park ( okuyama nature exploration park at tango peninsula) so we suddenly prepared trip and left home at 8:40 AM, sunday 20. Kyoto hightway was opend 2 month before so I was wondering heavy traffic, but traffic was smooth from yamazaki IC to terminal yosa amano-hashidate IC, so we reached caming park at noon (11:50). There are 2 type of camping erea, both of them were 1500 yen - 2000 yen per overnight, all person(very cheap), and there were no other people so we selected flat type site near river. After making a tent, we ate lunch. Afterthat, we drove to kinosai