May 28
Global warming has been changing Hokkaido’s early summer weather; several locals have mentioned it to me. ‘Rain…rain…..’ We were again rained out, so the Lake Toya was in the fog! But we have achieved the below.
- Learn the creation of beautiful Lake Toya out of violent volcano eruption 110,000 years ago
- Visit an organic farm, Saeki Farm, and learn how they grow vegetables organically
- Stay at the hotel which was the home to 2008 G7 Summit; QUESTION – how many can you name the head of the state back then and who remains as the head today?
- Private mortar boat cruising in Lake Toya
- Savor the local Kaiseki meal in the hotel
Saeki farm imports bees from Netherland. These bees were kept in the tomato hot houses to do the pollination of tomato. After two weeks of working bees die and another group after another are imported to continue the work in his hot house until November. Mr. Saeki make sure that these foreign bees never escape into outside. He has Japanese bees which specifically work for Japanese cherry trees.