Splashin’

We found a cool new place to play in the water this afternoon.  It was brutally hot (mostly because it was simply the first really hot, humid day we’ve had and so we haven’t gotten used to them yet) but we needed a good outing to round out our trip to the farmer’s market.  Kurashiki Dam hit the spot!

We ended up exploring the dam itself for a while even though that was not our goal.  The shallow inlet were kids can play was on the opposite side of this little isthmus.  I thought we were going to melt before we found it!

We did find this in the meantime though!

But we did eventually get to the area we were looking for.  The water was SO refreshing!

There are these two tiny waterfalls, as you can see, and then a very shallow stream leading under a bridge and into the reservoir.  It’s a great little spot, perfect for toddlers.

This looks down on the whole kids’ river section.  The “waterfalls” come out through a tunnel/culvert/spout/thing at the bottom of the hill I’m standing on and you can see the little bridge in the distance.

On a side note, the farmers’ market was fabulous as usual.  Fresh passion fruit, vegetables fresher, tastier and half the price of the commissary, homemade sponge cake, even fresh herbs.  I got small new potatoes and green beans for dinner tonight, and dill, lemon and garlic for the fish . . . the fish that I was supposed to buy at the fish market on our way home but they were sold out!  It seemed a shame to put fresh dill on frozen salmon but it tasted good anyways!

And that (plus a good workout this morning and a decent nap for both Logan and Mommy) makes for one very good day!