Maybe this weekend wasn't a #Staycation, it was more of a #LocalCation. If LocalCation isn't a word yet maybe it should be a word for when you go spend a good amount of time at a place that seems new or different or unfamiliar but it's within an hour or two or your place, where you usually live and make your living. Ideally we wouldn't need good beer ( #AozraAle #青空エール) and a hotel room for everything to feel new and exciting, but it's hard to be as relaxed at home with chickens demanding attention, not to mention the wash, the dishes, the floors, the bushes, the grass, all sorts of other things that should get done one way or another at one time or another... So it was nice to get out and relax without feeling like we were breaking the Earth or the bank as much as we would be if we did vacations as advertised. And since we didn't waste any time on airports, plans, trains or completely unfamiliar streets we didn't need more than a one-night stay to attain a pleasant bliss. We got to visit some places and people that we really like to visit too. #PerezsKitchen in #MiyazakiCity and #PanCafeAo in #Aoshima . #宮崎市 #青島

It was nice to walk barefoot around the wetland by Miyazaki's Awakigahara park. Just like 60% or so of the world's wetlands have been lost (explains the documentary DVDs _Flow: For Love of Water_, or maybe _Blue Gold_) 60% or so of this wetland has been lost to the big Car Ferry port and other ventures to the South of these pictures. To the north there is a yacht harbor, park and man-made beach. The yacht harbor needs regular dredging so the entrance is not closed by sand. Satellite photos look just like Madras port and the same mistakes were made. Sometimes I wonder if the mistakes are on-purpose, the coastline is destroyed by hard-structures and unending engineering as a measure to increase the GDP, sell lots of cement, and keep the same old fossils in power. There was so much more abundance of life and sound and feeling with the wetland. The man-made beach and burger house were bland in comparison.

At the wetland, if you settled down and really look, the whole place is moving with life. Even after the different crabs all run off and hid from you, there is all sort of more subtle life. I like the little Mutsugoro creatures, they are like the poster children for opposing moron development, like the Guillotine land reclamation project in Isahaya. We have to start undoing all the mistakes, clearing away all the concrete, unclog the watery arteries of life on Earth.

It's like we've been taught to prefer death to life, concrete and asphalt dead-lands to living and vibrant wet-lands....

#Miyazaki #MiyazakiCity #AwakigaharaBeach #Mutsugoro #宮崎市 #アワキガハラ公園 #阿波岐原森林公園 #ムツゴロ

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