After sleeping well at Iwaobetsu YH, I got up at 6:30 to catch the breakfast time. Before the breakfast, I took some photos around the hostel.
The hostel is enclosed by woods.
The road to mountains:
The breakfast was good, being soup, bread, salad, dessert, cheese.
After breakfast, Hasegawa (長谷川さん), my Japanese friend who I made friend at Iwaobetsu YH, took me to the parking site of Shiretoko-goko with a rental car.
The sign informs people about the lakes path and bears.
As the arrow directs, the first lake of Shiretoko-goko is 200 meters away.
First lake of Shiretoko-goko:
The trees are growing upon stone:
Second lake of Shiretoko-goko:
We backed to the parking site, then went to the observatory along the wooden path:
Hasegawa and me
View of first lake of Shiretoko-goko at observatory:
After we looked shiretoko-goko, Hasegawa drove me th Utoro Onsen bus terminal, where we separated. He would look Shiretoko peninsula by boat at Utoro (ウトロ, 宇登呂). Here, I met two people who are from Taiwan again. I had met them on the train to Shiretoko-Shari. We took the same bus to Shiretoko-Shari, and they went to Kushiro (釧路).
I'd like to thank Mr Hasegawa. He saved me more than one hour, so I decided to stay a while at Genseikaen (原生花園).
Wild flowers at Genseikaen:
Horses, wetland at Genseikaen:
