Wildflower Vid of the Kuju Higlands

[KyushuCalanthe]

Hope you all enjoy this. I took it a couple weekends ago in central Kyushu, Japan. My wife took me there as a birthday present since I just turned 50, oh my...

Enjoy.

Wildflowers of the Kuju Highlands

 

[abax]

I soooo enjoyed our little walk and didn't realize so many of our garden plants are native to Japan. Do you ever fall
on your ass? When you're walking along with the camera in your eye, I'm always tense worrying that you'll fall "and put your eye out" as our mothers always told us we
would. ;>)

 

[Paul Mc]

That's gorgeous!!!

You know, 50 is the new 20! Enjoy it!

 

[SlipperFan]

Happy Birthday, Tom! At least another happy 50 ahead...

Nice hike. You live in a beautiful country.

 

[Clark]

Happy birthday from NJ.

My P. japonica is pathetic. Probally compost material Monday.

 

[biothanasis]

Happy Brithday Tom!!!

Great video... lovely plants!!! (in some parts the video resembled an RPG game...cool!)

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Glad you all enjoyed it. I'm working on the hike to the top of Mt. Kuju right now - should be up sometime tomorrow.

Do you ever fall
on your ass? When you're walking along with the camera in your eye, I'm always tense worrying that you'll fall "and put your eye out" as our mothers always told us we
would. ;>)

Jez, I've fallen on my ass more times than I care to remember or am able to count! I don't actually look through the camera when I'm filming the walking sequences. It automatically focuses, so I just point in the direction I want to shoot.

That's gorgeous!!!

You know, 50 is the new 20! Enjoy it!

Ah, I'll have to try to remember that...

 

[JeanLux]

Great scenery so well presented Tom, bravo !!!! Must be terrific in spring with the azaleas in bloom !!!! Jean

 

[Leo Schordje]

Tom, I really liked all of your videos, the waterfall, the wild flowers and the cycad vids. Good info in all of them. Thanks

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Hey Jean, believe it or not, I have yet to see all those azaleas in flower. The mountains are swarming with camera toting hikers in that season. The mountain tops literally are brilliant pink in June!

Leo, glad you are checking out the other vids as well. I hope to have a nest of them going as fast as I can produce them.

And the promised vid of climbing to the top of Mt. Kuju. Not flower oriented, but maybe of interest anyway.

Hike to the top of Mt. Kuju

 

[streetmorrisart]

Just beautiful.

 

[abax]

I very much enjoyed that little hike up the mountain. Japan has such interesting topography. I'm now relaxed and reassured that you're not holding your camera close
to your face while falling over rocks. ;>)

 

[JeanLux]

Mt Kuju is a great sequence too :clap: !!!! As I watched it without sound, a question: what happened to these 'naked' slopes, in the middle of your last pic !?? Jean

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Mt Kuju is a great sequence too :clap: !!!! As I watched it without sound, a question: what happened to these 'naked' slopes, in the middle of your last pic !?? Jean

Hey Jean, the noxious fumes from the continuous venting of the volcano kills anything within a certain distance. When the wind shifts and blows it toward you it smells like strong rotten eggs, but isn't concentrated enough to hurt you. That's due to the hydrogen sulfide in it - a nasty smelling, toxic gas. Every so often people stumble into caves that have high concentrations and die from the stuff.

 

[JeanLux]

Ok, thanks Tom!!!! sounds somewhat dangerous to me :sob: ! Jean

 

[Dido]

thnaks for sharing with us was great

 

[biothanasis]

Second vid is grat too!!!

Did you see any plants of gesneriaceae family??

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Second vid is grat too!!!

Did you see any plants of gesneriaceae family??

Thanks Thanasis. In the gorges around Kuju there are wet walls of rock full of Conandron ramondioides, the "rock tabbaco" of Japan. They were in full flower during our visit but I couldn't get close enough to get any pics.