I went to Ozato Matsubara! 「海陽で行ってみた！」 大里松原編
Hey its Tony here!
こんにちは、トニーだよ。
In December last year, Global Kaiyo team members Gwenafaye, Jeff and I visited Ozato Matsubara beach. We previously visited in spring, so I thought we’d check out what it’s like in winter!
昨年12月に、グローバル海陽チームのグウェナフェーイ、ジェフと3人で大里松原を訪れたよ！以前に訪れたのは春だったので、冬の大里松原はどんな感じなのか、試しに訪れてみたよ！
We started from the small parking lot at the northernmost part of the beach, which is where we parked and began our walk through the forest.
大里松原の北の方にある駐車場に車を停めて、そこから林の中を散歩したよ。
Although Ozato Matsubara is famous for its pine tree forest, the northern part of the forest doesn’t seem to have many pine trees growing. It was instead more jungle-like with thick vegetation. We eventually found ourselves in an area of sparsely spread pine trees the further south we went.
大里松原は松林で有名だと聞いたが、北の方には松があまりないみたいだね。その代わり植物が密生して、少しジャングルっぽかったけど、南に行くほど松の木が増えていたよ。
There were a couple of openings in the sea wall, which we went through to take a closer look at the beach. The weather wasn’t exactly the best on this day, but the water was still very clear and you could see a nice light blue tint in the water.
護岸にはいくつか開口部があり、そこを通って海辺をじっくりと眺めることができたよ。この日は海を楽しむのに理想な天気ではなかったけど、それでも海水はとても青くて綺麗だったよ。
We also climbed up the observation building for a better view. From up here, the beach appears fairly flat. But if you actually walk on the beach along the shoreline, you can see that there’s a fairly deep dip in elevation from all of the waves digging into the beach’s pebbly surface.
より良い景色を眺めるために、展望台に登ってみたよ。ここから見ると、浜辺は平坦に見えるけど、実際に浜辺に沿って歩いてみると浜の小石の表面が波に食い込まれて、かなり深く凹んでいることがわかるよ。
The place that I lived at in Sydney was around 45 minutes from the beach by car. The place that I live at in Kaiyo right now is much closer to the beach, so I can enjoy the beach whenever I want! The great thing about Ozato Matsubara beach is that you can walk on the beach without the pebbles getting into your shoes. I’m not sure I could say the same about sandy beaches.
僕がシドニーで住んでいたところは海から車で45分くらいだったけど、今海陽町で住んでいるところは比較的海に近いので、いつでも海を楽しめることができてうれしいね！やっぱり大里松原海岸のいいところは、浜が小石ばかりだから、靴の中に入らずに歩けることかな？砂浜だと、確実に足が汚れてしまうよねー。
I also saw a couple of anglers camped on the beach that day. I’m curious to see what fish you can catch here.
釣りをしていた人を見かけたけど、ここではどんな魚が釣れるんだろう？
After checking out the beach, we headed back to the carpark by tracing path through the pine forest. It was on this path that we made one last interesting discovery: a deer footprint! I’m used to spotting deer in more hilly, mountainous areas in Kaiyo, so I was totally surprised that there were deer running through here so close to the beach.
海辺を楽しんだ後、駐車場に戻ろうとしたところで、もう一つ面白いものを発見したよ。それは、鹿の足跡だよ。今までは山などで鹿を見かけることが多かったので、海のすぐ近くを鹿が走っていることが全然想像できなかったね。
I enjoyed our refreshing afternoon walk through nature and by the beach very much! Maybe we’ll come back next in October for the Autumn festival at the Ozato Hachiman Shrine!
自然の中や海辺の散歩はとても楽しかったよ！今回は近くにある大里八幡神社までは見られなかったけど、10月の秋祭りの時にまた来ようかな？