Flowers and Boats in Kisarazu

I had a chance to take a day trip down to Kisarazu, on the south end of Chiba. The harbor is nice there, very clean but not like some of the sterile, touristy ports in around Tokyo. You could see fishing boats coming and going all the time, and a lot of locals fishing along the shore.

Here is a pic of two ships anchored there for servicing.

The city is also pretty nice. I had sashimi at a little fish restaurant, wandered around town and took a bunch of pics. I also ran into a family of semi-stray cats living on a little island. It was kinda funny. While I was petting one of the little cats in the bunch I saw its father come trotting up with something in his mouth. I thought it was grass at first, but when he spat it out I could see it was a huge moth.

The mother cat walks up to him, they exchange sniffs, and she picks up the bounty in her mouth to take it to a group of 3 kittens that had been hiding in the bushes. The father had a look that almost said, "Wait, what just happened here?" when she walked off with his find, but didn't seem to bothered by it.

Oh, and here's a pic of flowers I saw growing along the way south from the station. Yes, no cat pics on this blog... today anyway.

Oh, btw, I'm not sure exactly why but both of these pics look a lot better when you click on them and then zoom in to full size... Must be something in the compression it's using when I uploaded them.