自然破壊と自然保護
今週火・水と東京出張。火曜に会議と二つの忘年会を掛け持ちでこなし、翌朝ボーとした頭で商談するも、今ひとつ乗りが悪い。こんな時は「何もしないのが仕事」と心得、午後は遊ぶ事にした。ところが根が仕事人間の小生のこと、空き時間のつぶし方をしらない・・・。それなら真っ直ぐ帰阪すればいいものを、貧乏性の私には、それも何となくもったいない。そこで思いついたのが、ハトバスでの都内観光。
「３時間くらいの都内観光は・・・」と尋ねると、「お台場コースがよろしいのでは」とのアドバイス。ガイドさんの案内に従い、早速ハトバスに乗車。何と50名は乗れる２階建てバスにお客は5人。でも、バスは一路お台場へ・・・。都内観光を兼ねて約40分でお台場着、そこで１時間の観光を楽しみ、再度40分かけて東京駅まで帰る、正味２時間３０分のハトバ ス都内観光であった。
お台場に降りるや「自由の女神像」が出迎えてくれた。ニューヨークへ行くまでのことはない、お台場で十分と云った感じで、それは立派な女神像であった。
お台場に造られた人工海岸。でも東京湾の一部で、海は海。しかも意外に水は綺麗で、エッここが東京と云う感じ。
磯には普通に海藻が生え、ニイナ（貝）もいっぱい居た。
お台場から観た高層ビル群。
巨大ショッピングビルの中に在ったミニ水族館。実物はとても綺麗で、つい写してしまった。
これはお台場とは全く別。
今朝、出勤途中に狸を発見。家を出て50m程の所で子狸がヨボヨボと歩いていた。幾ら近づいても逃げる気配ひとつ無く、ただヨボヨボと歩くだけ。よくよく見ると足の裏が傷ついている感じで、爪の間から血がにじんでいる。従って、痛くてまともに歩けない。車が来ても自転車が来ても逃げることすら出来ない状態にある。動物病院にと直ぐに思ったが、入れる箱もなければ時間も無い。ただただ、誰か暇で親切な人が通りかかり、介抱してくれる事を願いつつ、意を決して駅へと向かったが・・・。
実はこの狸、以前から同じ場所でしょっちゅう見かけていた。ただ、出会うのは何時も夜で、しかも、結構なスピードで元気に道路を横切っており、この道路を獣道と間違っていた様であるが、何故に足の裏など傷つけたのか？。もしかしたら誰かが剃刀で、、、。だって、野生動物が足の裏を傷つけるなんて、一寸考えにくい・・・。
Business trip to Tokyo on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. I had two year-end parties and a conference on Tuesday, and the next morning I was in a daze when I had a business meeting, but it was not a great success. In a time like this, “doing nothing is work”, I thought, and decided to play in the afternoon. I don’t know how to fill up my free time…. If that’s the case, I should just go straight back to Osaka, but it’s somehow a waste for me because I’m poor. That’s when I came up with the idea of sightseeing in Tokyo by pigeon bus.
When I asked him how about a three-hour tour of Tokyo, he advised me that the Odaiba course would be a good choice. We followed the guide and boarded the pigeon bus at once. A double-decker bus with a capacity of 50 people had 5 customers. However, the bus went one way to Odaiba… It took about 40 minutes to arrive at Odaiba, where we enjoyed an hour’s sightseeing, and then another 40 minutes to return to Tokyo Station, which was a net 2 hours and 30 minutes of sightseeing.
As soon as we got down to Odaiba, we were greeted by the Statue of Liberty. It wasn’t until I went to New York that I said enough in Odaiba, which was a fine statue of a goddess.
The artificial beach at Odaiba. But it’s part of Tokyo Bay, and the sea is the sea. Moreover, the water was surprisingly clean and I felt like I was in Tokyo.
The seaweed grew normally on the shore, and there were a lot of nyina (shellfish).
The skyscrapers seen from Odaiba.
The mini aquarium was located in a huge shopping building. The real thing is so beautiful that I took a picture of it.
This is completely different from Odaiba.
This morning, on my way to work, I found a raccoon dog. About 50 meters away from the house, a cubs was waddling around. No matter how close we got, there was no sign of escape, just a wobbly walk. If you look closely, the soles of your feet feel bruised, and blood is seeping from between your nails. Therefore, I can’t walk decently because it hurts. We are in a situation where we can’t even run away if a car comes by or a bike comes by. I wanted to go to the animal hospital immediately, but I didn’t have a box to put it in and I didn’t have time. I went to the station, hoping that someone kind and free would pass by and take care of me, but…
As a matter of fact, I had seen this raccoon in the same place many times before. However, it was always at night when we met him, and he was crossing the road at quite a high speed, and he seemed to have misunderstood this road as a veterinary road. Maybe someone with a razor blade… Because it’s a little hard to imagine a wild animal hurting the soles of its feet….
