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Getting the jet-boat tickets
Koto, Kickty and I set off for Oshima before the rest of the group. We wanted to take a plane there (small aircrafts leave there from Chofu Airfield, right next to my university), but we couldn't get seats, so we decided to go via jet-boat.
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Pipe dream
I love these pipey sights. This is leaving Tokyo Bay.
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The Wind Tower
Far in the background, looking like an enormous ship with sails, stands 風の塔, "The Wind Tower", a huge air vent for the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, a tunnel that crosses Tokyo Bay. The towers works as the air supply for the tunnel.
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Our boat: my very first hydrofoil
I did't think these boats existed! I remember when I first saw one of these in Johnny Quest I thought "yeah right... who do they take me for", but let me tell you people: the future is upon us! And it has been upon us for about a century.
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The future: a century of history
Courtesy of Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Forlanini_Idroplano-Forlani_Hydrofoil_1910.jpg
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Breakwaters at Oshima
They are all over the palce! And I lurve them. They are so geometric! They look like the toys of a baby giant with ADD.
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The hydrofoil on our ... hydrofoil?
That bit underwater is the bit that allows the boat to do in 2 hours what a normal boat does in 6. Oh yeah.
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Kickty putting together his awesome bike
On the opposite side of the lens, my eyes show nothing but healthy envy. Mark my words, world: I shall have a bike like that one day!
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More breakwaters!
Everybody sing along! Yay!
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