So all of this is pretty repetitive  but I’m going to do it anyway.

This blog and “Unemployed But Comfortably Off” is a good archive of what I have done over the last 3 years and some. I probably read it more than anyone else, as it is pleasant to choose a random date and see what you were doing. I regret all  the years that have gone with no record. The blog give structure to my life in a similar way that the Higgs field gives structure to the universe, if you know what I mean.

I go trucking to the forests of the North to return the tables to the village hall of Ada, one of the most remote villages in Okinawa. Ada is so remote that it is impossible to find anything about it on Google apart for ads for nearby hotel.

Anyway Ichiro san the artist birdwatcher, check:

https://quietripple.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/got-my-chips-cashed-in/

and I go birdwatching once we have stashed the tables.

This Isuzu truck is very fine. I am definitely getting tattoos and driving around the western states in one of these with a sleeping cab on the back, once I have shuffled off the work coil.

He takes me to magical glades and sinuous rills. We hunt the Okinawan Woodpecker. http://www.konicaminolta.com/kids/endangered_animals/library/sky/okinawa-woodpecker.html

We find it not, but hear it a lot.

November in Okinawa

We see the Ryuku Robin,  but fleetingly.

http://www.arkive.org/ryukyu-robin/erithacus-komadori/

Daurian Redstart!

We eat picnic lunch prepared by Ichiro san’s estimable wife. Sandwiches and fruit with garland of wild flowers.

We come across hunters! Yikes, first gun I have seen in 3 years. They are shooting crows which prey upon Okinawan Rail chicks.

“I never done it ,Gov”
“Straight up, I was at home with the wife.”

We see  a  Striated Heron and lots of butterflies.

This is a Dragonfly

Happy snake

The Japanese love to cartoonify

This one has a ring in its nose

So nothing much really but there again what could be better?