Ok so back to Onjuku... Kenn and I try to sit on the beach in front of our hotel. Some guy comes up to us motioning that we can't sit there and have to move off to the side. We have no clue what he is saying and why we can't sit there. Then we see some other women who appear to be with this guy and they are helping him stake out this spot. Kenn and I can't figure out at all why they're there. They keep checking their phone and looking off at the parking lot like they are waiting for something or someone. We are baffled and coming up with possible scenarios. Maybe they are going to sell something, put up food booths? Are they drug dealers? Waiting for their friends to arrive? We have no clue. Then out of nowhere, a fishing boat is out in the ocean. We don't think much of it. Then we look up again and suddenly the woman is pulling in a rope the ocean! WHAT? And the other woman is pulling in another rope a little way down the beach. We have no idea where these ropes came from or why they're pulling them. Next, a ton of school children come running out of the hotel doors. They start lining up and pulling the ropes in. Finally after quite awhile we see it's a fishing net. Woah, we're wondering where that came from? They pull in a bunch of little fish and a few huge ones (as seen in the pic). From what we could decipher it's some kind or tour or educational trip. The funny thing is the next day, they did it again but instead of kids it was older Japanese men and woman. It just seemed like the most random thing at the time because we couldn't make sense of what was going on. Turns out the boat dropped the net in and a surfer brought the ropes into shore, we just didn't see him. The bizarre things we experience in Japan....
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You'll have a better time at the Thai beaches than in Japan.
Have a great time!!
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