Naruto Whirlpool

I fell down three times this day. First, at Jason's as I was hanging up a towel on the balcony. Second, more of a stumble somewhere while looking for transit. Third, as we were searching for the bus center that could get us over Awaji. The third time I fully fell down as I tripped over a cement cinderblock.

What does this have to do with the whirlpool? Well, nothing, except what was the easiest to find attraction of our trip was the most difficult to accomodate. Despite being a huge tourist attraction, and right by a major highway, buses only run there for a few hours everyday. And you can't catch a highway bus from there. Falling and transportation woes = super frustration.

So we get to the place, hike up and look through the viewers at the whirlpool. Well, where the whirlpool would be. The whirlpool is only distinct about twice a day. The area was still pretty cool to look at-- a big circular patch of stormy water. Since there was no way I'd get a good picture, we checked all the souvenier shops for postcards. Get this-- there were no postcards of the damn whirlpool. Instead, they had postcards of the bridge [no, still not the huge bridge]. There was a pack of Shikoku-Awaji postcards that had a single card of the whirlpool, along with about 8 of the damn bridge at different times of day. So this picture posted here was swiped off the internet.