Day 11 evening - Miyajima island

Well, it's evening now and James pushed for taking a train to a bus to a ferry to go to Miyajima island.  This was the hottest day, and we weren't sure if we would make it.  But this is a once-in-a-lifetime trip, so who needs sleep.  We didn't realize but came to learn that a lot of things even in the big towns close down around 6:00 p.m. - probably because it is dark at 7:00 p.m. 
                 Well, that is about when we got there -  7:00 p.m.  Everything was shutting down.  So we got to walk a bit and observe the scenery and the famous 'floating shrine'.  When the water is up, the red shrine appears to float.  The people-friendly deer were a lot of fun.  The views of the mountains were spectacular. We wish we could have been on this island earlier and made it to the beach.  We did get good-quality local food.  Lynne was safe as usual and got beef curry (hopefully it was beef and not horse), and everyone else got noodles and oysters............
                 We then took the ferry to a bus to a train and made it back to our Kyoto hotel at midnight.