The Waiting

We arrived at the regatta venue a comfortable 5 days before the regatta began. A bit “ample”, but it was good to be able to get the boat set up in a low stress timeframe and get used to the venue. It also enabled us to enjoy the beautiful shrine on Enoshima and experience some amazing sunsets with Mt Fuji in the background.

Yesterday, we also took an afternoon train to Kamakura on the 1902 narrow gauge single electric train along the seashore called the Enoden line. This area has some particular significance to anime fans, as was evident be the number of costumes!

With only a few hours and being fairly exhausted from the morning’s practice session, we only saw the Hasedera Shrine and the Great Buddha before going to the shopping district by the Kamakura train station to find a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant (dangerous!) and Matcha Belgian waffle (for me) and melon flavored shaved ice with dollop ice cream (Lexi) for dessert. Alex polished off a bag of dried orange slices.

Practice race and Opening Ceremonies are today with 1st race tomorrow at noon!Read more