Shirihoudai

Took a trip to the South Bay (Torrance, CA) area and it wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the Asahi fancy koi in Gardena.  I’ve been visiting this place since I was a little kid and its nice just to watch these magnificent koi - its very relaxing.  Someday my backyard will look like this place.

Some pictures:

Some things never change. . . this is the front of the store: 

Faded sign to show you where to park:

One of their display ponds:

They also have pictures on the wall of custom ponds that they built for customers.  Some are super nice.

pictures of the koi:

 The young ones - still a bit outside my pricerange though:

Who can’t love this adorable chimp? Those that do. . .DIE NOW!

Original story on the Mainichi.

I guess you can kill someone with a boomerang in space. If the aussies developed a space program, they’d be a lethal group of intergalactic commandos.

That there is Japanese astronaut Takao Doi throwing a boomerang in the International Space Station.