Mutsu Bay

Glass float at Mutsu Bay
Photo credit: Patrick 2007

About an hour north of us is a huge bay. Ever since we arrived, we have been hearing about "Shipwreck Beach," which is located on the southeast side of the bay. So on Sunday afternoon, we went up to try to find it check it out.

We didn't find the actual Shipwreck Beach, but after crossing a railroad track and climbing down a concrete retaining wall

Matthew walking along the tracks
and an art lesson in perspective:
there's always a lesson in there somewhere ;-)

(We were in the car for an hour, and we were not going home without walking on the beach!), we found a beach to walk along.


Picking up a baseball and some practice cones

The disappointing thing about the Japanese beaches we have visited is the amount of trash along them. At Mutsu Bay, it's mostly fishing trash: broken floats from nets, lots of rope, plastic parts of fishing equipment, and a few water bottles and beer cans.

Most of the stuff is high above the water line, so you can walk along and not trip over it.


For those of us used to fairly pristine American beaches, it is a bit disappointing. Maybe they don't clean it up because the beaches aren't used for swimming, just for fishing and clamming and such. And for American tourists to walk along and hunt for bits of amber and sea glass.



And climb around on the beach preservation measures.

In spite of the trash, it was a nice afternoon and good to get out of the house. Patrick took some great photos. Next time, we'll find the shipwreck.

Fishing float with surf fishers in background
Patrick 2007

Sunset, Mustu Bay
Patrick, 2007