FUJI !

Whenever Lee has experienced a typhoon in Japan, he has always noted how exceptionally clear the weather the day after turned out to be.  

Well, even though Typhoon Season 2012 isn't scheduled to begin for several months yet, today's weather, following on yesterday's wind and rain, gave rise to the perfect day for being able to observe Japan's famous Mt. Fuji while gadding about from bus to train to cable car to rope way to pirate ship to footpath along the shores of Lake Ashi.

The Japanese woodblock print artist Hokusai once produced a series entitled Thirty Six Views of Mt. Fuji.  Here is a contemporary set of twelve from Sean, Ted and Lee resulting from today's travels!

And, of course, another Japanese photo tradition is to have oneself pictured in front of whatever spot one is visiting to document your having actually been there.  Here are the requisite equivalents from the three of us:

And, finally, here's the daily photo image collage of the days events ...

Places pictured include inside a rope way gondola, at lunch at La Terrasse, on the pirate ship pier, aboard ship, along the Lake Ashi boardwalk and at a lakeside Shinto shrine.  It was a good day!