Day2-Driving to the edge 2

It was a comfortable drive. In a long drive on a road along the coast, I was about to forget that I was driving; the color of ocean was purely blue. Of course my conscious came back to driving mode immediately but I opened the window to feel the sea breeze. Actually, wind from the sea hit my cheek comfortably and I felt I was coming nearer to the destination.

It was just 9:00 am when I arrived in the headland. I parked the car in a parking lot attached to the headland (the headland is within a national park, so there is a huge parking lot and a souvenir shop with a restaurant. From the parking lot,  we need to walk on a long passage to go to the edge,. It was a fine day with no clouds and I thought it would be too hot to walk wearing a jacket, so I took off my jacket and put it in my backpack. 

My heart was beating, partially because I was becoming excited as I was reaching to the edge, but mainly because I walked a bit fast on the passage up and down due to the excitement. Therefore, I slowed down a bit. I had suffocated in a mountain site in the northern India and I was rescued by local Buddhist monks. The bitter experience ran through my brain and I didn't want its relapse, so I slowed my walking speed, though I wanted to go quickly.


There are some legends about the headland. An Ainu princess threw herself into the water at the edge of headland for her love (boyfriend or fiance). Since then, women were not allowed to visit the headland because it was said that,  if women came to the headland, the dead princess cursed them to die. The Nyonin-Kinsei-no-mon (A  women off-limit gate) was the boundary that women could never cross. Now, this rule disappeared and women can go to the edge without problems.



Yes! A blue ocean with the crystal-clear blue sky! My heart was beating...


But.


"Keep Out"




Whaaaaatttt????




The passage to the edge was blockaded. The "Keep out" notice said that the passage was partially collapsed due to a heavy rain last year and it was not repaired since then.




My heart went downward a bit, the beating stopped. My friends told me that the view from the edge was great, but I wasn't allowed to be there.....


Having said that, I was positive to change the feeling. Actually, I couldn't go to the edge but the view I had there was also splendid. The pure blue ocean made me spaced out a bit; I couldn't think of anything, just my heart was stolen by the natural beauty.