Matsuyama Day 2

Today the goals are a Beer Farm and a beach, both on Gogoshima Island.  We ride a streetcar to the ferry terminal in Takahama.

At first the street car is all ours, but we pickup a few passengers at follow-on stops along the way.

Now at the Takahama Ferry Terminal, with lot's of good information...

...and a nice waiting room with all the beverage flavors and decent seats.

Here's one of the Gogoshima ferries, but this one will offload and then take people to the other car-capable landing on Gogoshima.  We need to wait a bit for the next cycle that will take us to our desired landing.

A menagerie of rock formations just off shore.

That's a good bit of Gogoshima Island in view - yeah, it's a very short ferry trip - about 15-minutes.

There's another ferry, one that takes people to Nakajima Island, further out and a bit bigger - they leave at the same time.

A fast ferry boat, and another view of the Gogoshima ferry.

Finally, here comes the ferry that will take us over.

And another Nakajima Ferry shows up to take a good load of passengers out.

And we're off!

Coming in for the landing...

...and landing achieved!

A fairly new brewery is here in this small berg - opened just 6-months - we even scored some fish and chips, and the beer was great.

And now a short walk across the island to what we hope will be a nice beach...

...and it was a very fine beach with a beach stand to get out of the sun, buy some cheap beer, and take a dip.
(somehow we managed to not take our own pictures here - so these are "borrowed")

Now back to the ferry - hmmm, you might ask this is not the ferry we took getting over here, and this is not how we boarded it before.  As it turned out, when we were walking away from the beach, the lady that ran the beach stand called out and after some pantomimed talk, we learned she was closing for the day and would take us in her van back over to Takashima from the other ferry landing.  What a nice way to avoid a 25-minute walk in the late day heat, and we managed to talk some more, especially about her sunset photos from the beach.

Back to our lodging, just off this arcaded shopping district.