Tim gets to start the day with one of his favorite breakfasts...
Upon arrival at the park headquarters we find a human-sized Hot-Wheels mini-van...vrooom vrooom!
Our hike possibilities for the day withs lots of volcanic crater lakes:
And we're off!
Lots of newer informational postings abound...
We see a volcanic steam vent nearby...
From an observation deck we're not getting the view it suggests is out there in the low clouds.
A raccoon-dog-man posing with some portraits of his forest friends...
The low clouds are now raining rain down upon us...
We're at the first crater lake, taking it all in from a picnic shelter.
We're hoping to hike around these hills and onto the next lake...
Ah, it's only water right...we consider pressing on, and then do so, until the trail starts to get sloppy muddy wet.
Oh well, let's save our shoes for drier days and just sit a bit more and take in the scenery, then it's back to the car.
It's a bit of a salvaged day finishing at the park headquarter's information center with cool displays.
Back to our house - not a bad place to hang out during the rest of the rainy day.
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This is a living room we'll not see much of in this entire trip - a very homey lodging.
And the capper - a hot spring fed onsen (hot bathing facility) comes with the house! Takes about 45 minutes to fill with free water from subterranean volcanically heated sources.
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