佐世保と巨大航空母艦 "Sasebo bay and huge aircraft carrier

これは僕が佐世保の会社の経営をしていた頃

When I was managing a company in Sasebo for this.

休日には自転車で早朝からサイクリングをしていて撮った写真

The picture which was going cycling from early morning by bicycle in a holiday and took a picture

最初は入り組んだ入り江や湾の撮影をしていました

The beginning was taking a picture of complicated inlet and bay.

自転車を走らせていくと、遠くに巨大な船影を見つけました

Bicycle, when the huge outline of a ship was found far.

拡大してみると、それはデカい航空母艦でした

When it expanded, that was a large aircraft carrier.

ここからでは良く見えないと思い

湾内が良く見える山へ登ってみることにしました

I decided to think it doesn't look good from here and climb the mountain where it's often seen in the bay.

次の写真の奥の方は佐世保市の市街地

The inside of the next picture is a city in Sasebo-city.

ここにはアメリカ海軍の基地があります

A base of U.S. Navy is here.

拡大をしてみると、艦橋に76というナンバーが

When it'll expand, it's the number as 76 in a bridge.

調べてみたら

If it'll be checked.

ロナルド・レーガン

USS Ronald Reagan, CVN-76

太平洋艦隊（第7艦隊）第5空母打撃群　の原子力空母です

A nuclear aircraft carrier of the pacific fleet (the 7th fleet) 5th aircraft carrier blow group.

船上には艦載機(F/A-18F Block2)らしき機体がずらりと並んでいました

The fuselage which seems to be a carrier-based plane (F/A-18F Block2) was in line in a row on the ship.

この時ちょうど、東日本大震災が遭ったとき

他7隻の艦船と共に支援活動「トモダチ作戦」のためとして関東〜東北沖に出動した時でした(この時は震災の緊急支援でかなり貢献をしてくれました)

When an eastern Japan great earthquake met exactly at the same time.

It was when it was dispatched to Kanto-northeast offing as purpose of a support activity as well as a ship of 7 ships of 、 other ones "friend strategy", (It's contributed fairly by urgent support of an earthquake disaster at the same time.)

近くの湾内をみてみると、こんな船も

That it'll be seen in the bay around here, such ship.

これもでかい船で、補給艦でしょうか?

Is it this, too and it be a supplement ship by barge?

次の写真の船もこの空母打撃群の支援船なのでしょう

A ship of the next picture will be also support ship of this aircraft carrier blow group.

この佐世保港は海上自衛隊の基地としても有名な場所です

This Sasebo harbor is also a famous place as a base of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

仕事で 色々な場所に行くといろんなものに出くわします

I come across various ones at various places to work.

上海浦東国際空港"Shanghai Pudon international airport"

上海については時折紹介していますが、今回は玄関口の上海浦東国際空港を

It's being now and then introduced about Shanghai, but it's Shanghai Pudon international airport in a stoop this time.

一枚目の正面に写っているビルはターミナルビル

Bill who comes out in front of the first is a terminal building.

大きなターミナルビルが東西に2つあって、その真ん中に大きなホテルが立っています

There are 2 big terminal buildings in east and west, and a big hotel stands in the middle of it.

たしか、大衆空港賓館/ Da Zhong Airport Hotel

シルバーの像をターミナル内でいくつか見かけました

I came across several silver images in the terminal.

旅人が一休みしている様子を表現しているのでしょうね

It's express the state from which a traveler rests, right?

ターミナルビルの長さ、長いです　１本　1400m

The length of the terminal building is long, about  1400m,

関西空港のターミナルビルの1.5倍 くらい

1.5 times more than a terminal building in Kansai Airport  About.

アジア最大級の空港は、今年から５本目の滑走路を運用開始する

The airport of the Asian maximum level begins to use the 5th runway from this year.

どれも、たしか3700mくらいの長さを誇っています

Everything is probably proud of about 3700 m of length.

滑走路の端に行くと、あんなにデカいターミナルビルが小さく見えるくらいです

It's to the extent a so large terminal building looks small at the end in a runway.

海外の空港では、やはり日本の航空会社の飛行機を見つけるとなんとなくほっとします。

When an airplane of a Japanese airline company is found as expected at the overseas airport, I'm relieved somehow.

それにしてもANAのゴールドの塗装は珍しいよね

Even though the gold painting of ANA is unusual, isn't it?

飛びあがると、ターミナルビルの全体像が見えます

When I flying, the picture in a terminal building is seen.

僕は西へ(四川省)へ向かおうとしていますが、この空港はすぐ横に長江の河口があります

I try to go to (Szechwan-province) to west, but there is a mouth of a river in the Chang Jiang river in the side right now in this airport.

次の写真は中洲の島の一つです

The next picture is one of islands in a sandbank.

大阪空港 アプローチからタッチダウン"Osaka International Airport /"Touch down from approach"

今回は大阪空港へ着陸する飛行機をカメラでとらえてみました

The airplane which lands at Osaka International Airport was caught with a camera this time.

生駒山上空をすぎてから、うっすらと飛行機のライトが浮かんできます

I'm hitting upon light of an airplane dimly after I cross the Ikoma sky.

 

次の写真はちょうど照明塔の上のミニチュアみたいに見えますが

The next picture looks like a miniature machine just on the illumination tower and is seen.

カメラの望遠を30倍くらいに拡大して捉えたものです

Zooming of a camera was expanded into about 30 times and it was caught.

機体はJAL国内線で運用しているJACの運用するATR42-600

ATR42-600 by which JAC which is being used by JAL domestic flight uses a fuselage.

客席数は48席の小さな飛行機です

The capacity is a small turboprop on 48 seats.

向こうに見えるビル群は大阪・梅田周辺あたりです

A building group they see is per the Osaka Umeda(Down Town) circumference.

いよいよ滑走路上空、もう一機離陸待ちの飛行機が下に見えます

An airplane of in the runway sky and another plane takeoff waiting is seen in the bottom increasingly.

意外と大阪空港は近距離で旅客数の少ない便も多い様で。小さな機体もたくさん飛んでいます。

That it's unexpected, Osaka International Airport is short distance and a few flight is also by a lot of states. Many small fuselages are also flying.

ATR社は、正式名称：Avions De Transport Regional G.I.E（ATR）

フランスのエアバス・グループとイタリアのLeonardoの共同事業体として設立されたリージョナル航空機メーカーです

ATR company is official name :Avions De Transport Regional G.I. E (ATR)

The RIJONARU airplane manufacturer established as French airbus group and joint enterprise form of Italian Leonardo.

ますます、このような小型の機体の需要も増えるので早く日本製のリージョナルジェット/ MRJを早く市場に導入してほしいものです

Demand of such small fuselage also increases increasingly, so I want you to introduce  MRJ made in Japan into a market early early.

この機体、着陸時の滑走距離も短いようで、目の前で着陸したかと思うと数百メートルで停止したように思えます。

This fuselage and the gliding distance when landing, also seemed short, and whether it landed immediately, the moment, it seems to have stopped by ３hundreds of meters.

この機体は日本ではまだあまり運用数は少ないのですが(たしかJACでも９機導入予定)

This fuselage is still so few in Japan (It's expected probably to introduce 9 planes of JAC.)

次の写真の様に、ハイビスカスをデザインしたものも飛んでます

The one which designed hibiscus like the next picture is also flying.

ハイビスカスのデザインは

鹿児島県の離島の多くの自治体で「市町村の花」となっているハイビスカスをJAC就航の離島・地域の象徴としているとのことです

It's said that the design of the hibiscus makes the hibiscus which becomes "flower in towns and villages" by many autonomous bodies in a solitary island in Kagoshima-ken a symbol in a solitary island and an area of a JAC commission.

九塞溝シリーズ⑪ チベット族の村"Jiuzhaigou Series(11) The Tibetan's village"

九塞溝の特集ももうシリーズ⑪

Special story in Jiuzhaigou, already, series(11)

ここは広大な面積なので簡単には終わらせられません

It's the vast area, so this isn't brought to an end easily.

1日ではとても観光できる場所ではないので

Because it isn't the place where you can go sightseeing at all in 1 day.

一路ホテルへ向けて戻る途中です

It's while I return for a hotel directly.

湖それぞれに、名前はついていますが詳細は解説できません

Each lake is named, but details can't be explained.

九塞溝というのはチベット族の村がこの界隈の谷に9か所あったと以前に書きましたが次の場所もその一つ

The one as a ditch wrote that there was  Jiuzhaigou(nine forts of village) of the Tibetan in a valley in this neighborhood before, but the next place is also the one.

観光用に少しデフォルメしていると思いますが、美しい村です

I think it's being deformed a little for sightseeing, but it's a beautiful village.

火花海とあります、内容が観たければ拡大してご覧ください

 When you'd like to judge the contents which are here as a sparking Lake, try expanding.

この九塞溝内には無数の滝があり、それぞれに美しい世界を造っています

An countless waterfall is in this Jiuzhaigou, and the beautiful world is being made each.

湖の水はあくまでも清く澄み切っています 

The water from lake is clean to the end, and it's clear.

次は盆景灘と言う看板があります

There is a sign called a Bonsai(miniature garden) Shoar next.

この広い川一面に盆栽のような木々が生えているということです

It's said that the trees like a bonsai grow in this wide river.

ホテルに戻ってきました

 I have returned to the hotel.

広大なインターコンチネンタル・ホテル内もいたるところにこんな植栽が施されています

Such planting is also given to everywhere in vast Intercontinental Hotel.

宿泊客はこういうのにも癒されるんでしょうね

Guests will be also healed by such one, won't he?

九塞溝シリーズ⑩ 珍珠灘瀑布 "Jiuzhaigou Series(10) Pearl Shoals waterfall"

この九塞溝の湖ではよくこのような水中の美しい珊瑚のようなものを見かける

I frequently came across something like beautiful coral in such water at a lake in this Jiuzhaigou.

これは、自然の倒木が腐らず、そのまま石灰質の付着物が表面を覆って出来る自然の造形物である

A natural fallen tree doesn't rot and deposit of lime matter covers the surface just as it is, and this is the natural modeling thing which can be done.

遊歩道の案内板、漢字が表記の文字と違いますが、文字が日本語に無いものは書き替えています。

Guideboard on the esplanade and a kanji are different from the character of the transcription, but something letterless in Japanese is being rewritten.

最初は幅広い緩やかな滝が現れます

Wide gently inclining waterfall appears at the beginning.

次は周辺地図です、現在地は珍珠灘

Next is the surrounding map, a present location is Pearl Shoals.

周りは　4000m級の山々が連なる

The mountains of the 4000m order participates in the turn.

いよいよ珍珠灘大瀑布　

Pearl Shoals Waterfalls　

幅/Width  230m   落差/gap  88m 

下から見上げると壮大さが判ります

Magnificence finds out that I look up from the bottom.

パネルの英語名が場所によって変わってる??

Is an English name of a panel different by a place?

写真の皆様方は中国の方達だと思います

I think everybody of a picture is Chinese people.

下手から見上げると、また更に凄さが判ります

When I look up from poorness, I know wonderfulness again more.

夏場でしたが、高地と言うことと、滝のしぶきでとても涼しい場所でした

It was time of midsummer, but it was uplands and was a very cool place again by spray in a waterfall.

これも九塞溝のほんの一部にすぎないんです

It's also only Jiuzhaigou of just one in a ditch here.

黄山シリーズ⑩ この山々とは一旦お別れします "Huangshan Series(10) Part from this mountains once."

今回で、中国の世界自然遺産「黄山」シリーズは１０回目です

Chinese world natural legacy "Kiyama" series is the 10th time this time.

この山々は雲や霧が無くても素晴らしく綺麗です

Even if there are no cloud and fog, this mountains is clean wonderfully.

ここの特徴的な尖った岩山

Characteristic sharp rocky mountain here.

やはり絶景です

It's a superb view as expected.

この険しい岩肌を縫うように登山道が続いています、向こうの山のてっぺんの平らな場所に登山客達が見えます

Mountaineering visitors seem to sew this steep rock surface in the flat location of the top of that mountain where a trail up a mountain continues.

見上げると巨大な岩山

The rocky mountain where it's huge when I look up.

見下ろすと、底なしの谷が

When I look down, it's a bottomless valley.

でも、やはりそこは絶景の地

But the place where that place is a superb view as expected.

ずっと山頂付近を歩きまわり、そろそろ下山をする時間です

Time to go far around the mountain top and climb down a mountain by and by.

下山するためのロープウェイの駅に到着です

It's arrival at the station of the ropeway to climb down a mountain.

山頂駅の綺麗な女性職員に「さようなら」

 "say good-bye" to a beautiful female staff in the mountain top station.

暗くて美しい人かどうか解らないって・・・ゴメンナサイ

It's dark, and I don't know whether you're a good-looking person..., I'm sorry.

すごい急角度の下山ルートを我々はロープウェイで空中走行です

A wonderful sharp-angled leaving a temple route, we're a run in the air by ropeway.

どうです、どこを切り取っても美しい風景の真っただ中です

How is it, wherever is cut off, it's the midst of the beautiful landscape.

岩山の上に見える仏像のような岩が我々に別れを告げているようです

A rock like a seen Buddhist image seems to be telling us of separation on the rocky mountain.

いつまでも、この綺麗な世界が残っているといいですね

Forever, I hope that this beautiful world stays.

ここで。一旦、「黄山」からはお別れです

Here. Once, "Huangshan" vanity is a farewell.

さようなら

SAYONARA......Good-bye!!