The first segment of our Big Year is officially over. We are currently sitting at Narita Airport and will soon be boarding a flight
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Category: Japan
Cranes, Eagles, and Kites, oh my!
On January 21st, we arrived in Hokkaido at 9:00 a.m. Our goal for the day was to make the 5 hour drive across the island
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The story of the Fish Owl
This is the story of how Ross and I almost died got to see Blakiston’s Fish-owl, an endangered owl species found in East Asia. Oddly
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Monkeys!
On Tuesday (Jan 20) Ross and I visited Jigokudani monkey park, a monkey-spa paradise, where wild Japanese Macaques live and come to bathe in the
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First taste of Japan
Yesterday (Jan 18) we boarded a ferry and headed south to the Izu Island chain located south of Tokyo, Japan. Our game plan for the
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