Planned excursion: the caves of Ryusendo. Then coastal view with rocks. In the evening, birthday dinner with Michelle-excellent
As above, Sharon and others pointed out that I pictured the wrong tree in the previous post. Now corrected.
Coast line coming in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryūsendō
Mountain ride to get to the cave; had to go through 17 tunnels.
Cave tour followed by coastal ride to observation point
Sannoiwa
Just some shrooms at a store
Michelle’s birthday party at chartreuse all eight of us
George got a wonderful bottle of wine. Kathy bought a wonderful card.
Boog's Blog 
Oyster farms seeded for pearls? https://youtu.be/o8pqqegFBzwSent from my iPhone
Pretty sure the circles in the bay are part of a fish farm – seen lots of them in coastal fishing regions like the Iwate Coast.
What year was the Lynch Bages?
Fois gras looks awesome.