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tours of Kawasaki

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

So far, I've given three tours of my part of Kawasaki by "zoom.us" using my phone.

I led Mari and the kids on an evening tour on April 30th, because my pocket wifi still had nearly all of its 5GB of network traffic left (because I hadn't gone out all month). I took them to "mouth of the gully" and then back, over the hill behind my place.

Then I took them (and grandma!) on an early morning tour this past Sunday. It was unfortunately pretty hazy, but it I took them through the big cemetery and then on top of the hill. Early that same afternoon I took Heidi and Ken on a trip starting over the hill and then along the small creek that has an interesting feature - it's driven at one point to cross a river. The river is the the Hirase, it's the one I've followed on foot from away in the hilly south-west through to the much larger Tamagawa, probably 10+ kilometers in all. At some point the Hirase was diverted from where it flowed through "Mouth of the gully" right under the hill where I live. When this happened, the Hirase and the creek should have crossed at right angles. So they damned the creek and made a gate that diverts flood water into the Hirase, and drove the creek into a pipe that then goes underneath the river and via gravity flow emerge on the far side of the river. It's all visible here. For the life of me, I can't find the name of the creek and I see on the maps on duckduckgo that it seems they might also have altered the course and reversed the flow of the creek at some point. The same kind of shenanigans you see in the Niagara area.

I'd be happy to do more tours!