Bungotakada, Shintama Coast range

Oita Godo Newspaper (morning edition on April 11, 2008)

Shintanama coast located in Bungotakano it is well known as a tide land, there are many creatures, especially ‘Mate shell’ that you can go to visit them. This place’s become famous to other tourists, if you want to enjoy the beginning of Spring you could feel it there to touch this kind of Spring season. When it’s the weekend there’re many people been visiting to face this experience.

With a wide tideland and many shells such a local place to travel, people visit there bring their sandals, boots that get tied already, scoop, basket and so on. The tideland full of salt as a wide beach for walking around. Taking Mate shells is related to the sand of the beach that is always be sharpen by a litttle when a hole appears just put the salt into it. When the salt substance in the sea water get into the hole the shell will make a noise ‘pushhhh…’ up to the ground then when you saw shells going up you have to catch them quickly before they have a chance to escape, the kids also joined this fun activity they said catching Mate shells is the best of Spring season.

Comment：

I’ve never tried this kind of activity before, though in Thailand there such a kind of the same place like this but the different thing is we call the shelled ‘Hoi Lod’, Hoi means shell and Lod is the name of it and how about Mate shell tests, is it salty or sour? I must find a map of this place such an emergency case because I want to go with friends and have dinner full with the variety menu made from Mate shells, hope that they have enough shells for us there…see ya soon!

PUNTHUCHAT Siripun

Thailand

APS３, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University