Monthly Archives: July 2012

Update – Easter Island: A Parable for Our Times?

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

Easter Island – A Parable for Our Times? looks at our most important political issue – sustainable development – in the light of what happened on Easter Island.  I have added a brief introduction, seventeen new monochrome images and a  … Continue reading →

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24th February: Hokkaido – Utoro to Memanbetsu Airport (Abashiri)

Posted on July 20, 2012 by

These are my last images from Hokkaido, taken out the window of the bus as we drove about 50 kilometres to the airport.  The snow is generally fairly heavy.  I was sitting in the back seat and able to have … Continue reading →

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24th February: Hokkaido – Shiretoko National Park (Day 2)

Posted on July 15, 2012 by

This is a view of Utoro from my hotel window on my last day in Hokkaido, very early in the morning. The plane was to leave in the middle of the day but first we made the most of the … Continue reading →

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23rd February: Hokkaido – Shiretoko National Park

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

After dropping our stuff off at the Utoro hotel and lunch, we headed further along the coast past the ice clogging the sea shore, towards Shiretoko National Park and Furepe Falls. This is Furepe Falls, an entirely frozen waterfall with … Continue reading →

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23rd February: Hokkaido – Oshin-Koshin Falls

Posted on July 10, 2012 by

We drove along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, heading towards Utoro, where we would spend the night.  Floating and beached ice lined the shore. We stopped at Oshin-Koshin Waterfall, beside the highway.  This is an Ainu name, meaning … Continue reading →

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23rd February: Hokkaido – Notsuke National Highway

Posted on July 7, 2012 by

Here we are still in farmlands near Notsuke Bay with the mountains of Central Hokkaido in the background.  We are on our way from Notsuke Bay towards the town of Utoro, across the base of the Shiretoko Pensinula in North-Eastern … Continue reading →

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22nd to 23rd February: Hokkaido – Odaito

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

Please click on each image in this post to see them larger with a black background.  Because they are mainly nighttime shots they look better this way. Late in the afternoon, we arrived at Odaito, a small township on Notsuke … Continue reading →

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