Miyagima Island

On the ferry over to Miyagima Island. It was about a 15 minute ferry ride from the mainland.
The island of Miyagima with the floating torii gate in the background.




These pictures are from when we arrived in the morning and the tide was still in... but in the process of going out.



Barrels of sake. I'm not sure what they are storing it for..
The tide is out.


This was the cutest litte baby deer and its mama.


Robert managed to get us both in this shot!
A narrow residential street on Miyagima Island.



Inside the temple, this was a huge statue (all the way up to the top of the ceiling) of one of the gods.


From inside the tram...
Taking the "ropeway" up the mountain...
These are oyster beds that we could see from the top of the mountain.

I saw this sign and thought it was a joke......
until I saw this!


Hiking up to the top of the mountain...






This was the biggest, most purple worm I've ever seen!

This was a little stream was crossed over. All the rocks were lined up perfectly inside the riverbed.
We came down from our mountain hike in time to see the tide coming back in. You could walk all the way out to the torii gate when the tide is out.

The five-element pagoda sitting above the temple.
Catching the floating torii gate around sunset.