While the other kept on delivering supplies to various people around Kobuchihama I join with Toru-san to have a look at a second harbor. Today they had almost recovered one of the lost fishing boats and we wanted to have a look at it.

The story of this particular fishing boat begins when the tsunami hits Kobuchihama. The tsunami took it and pushed it all the way up on a mountain side where it got stuck with about 5 other boats of its own size. What to do for a 2 ton fishing boat but to sit there on the mountain side and wait for help. And that’s what it did. For 6 months.

Eventually people came to its and its friend’s rescue. But it was hard work since they had to roll the boats down the mountain side on tree trunks. Finally, today, the boat was back in the harbor with only one more obstacle to clear.

After some tries the boat was dragged over the barrier and safe back in the harbor. Though you could only hint a smile on the boat, my guess is that it was as relieved and happy as its owner.

The End.

After our visit to the fisherman’s home we drove to a temporary home complex next to Coco’s. Coco’s if you remember was where we had the takidashi the first time we visited Kobuchihama a while back.

Here we distributed more supplies to various people.

Next stop was at a local fisherman and his wife’s home. Their home was still quite intact. Probably saved because of the buildings in front of it and that it was located up somewhat on a mountain side. To get there we had to pass one of facilities of the Kobuchihama fishing communities. It was basically blown out, but they had started to renovate it.

At the fisherman and his wife we got fruits and talked for a long while. They have some spare rooms on their home that they let volunteers stay in free of charge. They were very nice people.

They also had got a few cute kittens 🙂

After our stop in Fukukiura we continued to Kobuchihama where we stopped at one of the temporary home complexes. Here we distributed 1/3 of what we brought to various people that have just moved into their new temporary homes.

We did not visit all the people living in the complex as it is impossible with the few resources we have. But it nevertheless feels terrible to not be able to help them.