Day 3 Rumoi to Misakidai Park 82km

The wind picked up during the night, but it was fairly still, calm and balmy when we woke to bright sunshine at 4.30am. We set of from Rumoi around 7am and followed the coast road past Obirio to a historical herring fishers hut and outpost. This was a huge old tradition wood building from which herring fishing and processing was completed. It looked like tough smelly work back in the early days. We stopped in Haboro for lunch at a fisherman's seafood restaurant, where I tried the local treat of sweet shrimp and octopus. The shrimp were raw, but had been marinated in sake and sugar, making them soft and slightly sweet. We continued on stopping off at some of the many little fishing port villages. We stopped at a campground we learnt about from Japanese motorcyclists we chatted to. The campground was just outside Shosanbetsu. We set-up our tents and walked to the onsen hotel nearby and had a nice soak. After making ourselves some dinner we visited a Shinto shrine on the pebble beach to watch sunset.Read more