The harvest moon

"The Chyusyu No Meigetsu" means that the beautiful moon is seen with an old calendar.

We also call it "the autumn night with a full moon".

It is translated as the harvest moon in the English.

The mysterious moon rose to the Mombetsu port.

The training of Sea Paradise

The new tourist facility of the seal opened.

A person can come in contact with a seal at a beach here.

Two 1-year-old seals are trained now.

It was Hiyori today to have appeared.

The present training is to go down the slope to the beach.

She was able to go down to the neighborhood of the beach.

However, she came back to the top probably because she was tense.

I hear that she entered the sea yesterday.

Hiyori in response to the signature of the trainer.

When thank you, she lowered the head and said hello to a visitor and was over.

Hang in there! Seal pup!

The going up of the salmon

I went to the Lake Komuke in the evening.

It is the place that can watch the beautiful setting sun.

A Japanese pampas grass stained with gold in the setting sun told autumn arrival.

On the other hand, the going up of the salmon which was an autumn scene began.

A pink salmon goes up in Mobetsu River flowing through Monbetsu.

Photograph while you touch a seal

The Seal center did well.

I think that probably it is only here to have taking a ceremonial photograph while you touch a seal.

It will be that a lot of wonderful souvenir pictures are taken.

Take a walk at Forest Park

It was good weather.

I took a walk at Forest Park.

The sun light was reflecting on the pond.

A duck was swiming on the pond.

Color of leaves began to change.

 Fallen leaves were autumn color.

Beautiful blue on the pond.

Autumn red plant "SANGO-SOU"

Autumn red plant "SANGO-SOU" are their best now.

We can see them at Lake Komuke.

This plant change to red from green at early autumn.

Its height is about 10 cm.

It likes weak salt water and rare plant.

A gray heron was flying over the red carpet.

Big claw of crab

There is the big claw of crab in our city.

Our main industry is fish industry.

Untill few years ago, many crabs were brought from ships of Russia.

That's why, our city was famous as crab town.

This monument was symbol of our city.

Now, we can not see ships of Russia.

But many visiters take a anniversary picture.

Many visiters enjoy seals at the seal center.

This seal is 2 years old, I think.

She did the pool debut today.

She was nervous !