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I usually write in Japanese, so if you want daily, up-to-date, fast informations, please check my HATENA-diary.
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"Tropical Night"

In summer, some people want to go to tropical resort. Tropical island, that sounds great, but not to our people living in the city.

Yesterday night was so terrible. The minimum temperature was 25 degrees in Centigrade. It's not maximum, but minimum. Damn, global warmings, and so called "heat island" phenomenon.
The night whose minimum temperature was above 25 is called "Tropical Night" here in Japan, but it is not academic term, so you can't find it at Wikipedia, except CJK's.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/熱帯夜

Oh, the Heat island is listed at Wikipedia, which I did not know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

It's still July, you know. So probably until the middle of September, we have to endure and contrive to survive in such a tremendous heat, hi.

Shikine island

I came back from Shikine island and put a new album.

It was very enjoyable weekend short trip. The island is small. I don't know the exact number of population, but supposedly less than 1000. There are a lot of nature, beautiful sea shores and hiking road, no garbage. Yes, during my stay, I could not find any garbage, no cigarette tips, no bottle cans on the ground! When I met small kids on the street, they greet me, saying Hello :smile: Foods are simple, but fresh. A lot of fishes.
On Saturday, I walked around the northern, western and southern part of island. There was a wonderful hiking road, and after walking about 4 hours, there I arrived a beautiful, natural hot spa. There are many spa around Japan, but many of them are so artificial. I mean, people use pump to drain hot water from far beneath, sometimes over 1000 meters. But on this island, the spa is all natural. Hot water springs from the ground, and wonderfully enough, just around the sea shore! So you don't have to mix water by mankind. Natural blend of sea water and hot water makes real spa you can enjoy!

I wish I could visit this, or another nearby island, in the future soon. We don't have to take vacation to visit there.
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