A lion rock and a Hashikui rock

It is a wallpaper photograph of the blue sea in Kii Peninsula, and scenic spots, such as a lion rock, Hashikui rock, etc. of a natural treasure.

A lion rock is the very huge natural knowledge which has no less than 25m in height, and is in the end of the west of the Shichiri-mihama seashore facing Kumano Nada. What he is surprised at anyhow is the form. The figure to which it seems that the lion is barking toward the sea in Kumano Nada completely truly looks just like a real lion. Although the rough sea of Kumano Nada and the strong wind to spray completed this, I did not think that it was uncanny so far. It is also the hall of the Kumano fireworks display incidentally held here on August 17 every year, and popular spot puts in and photos a lion rock and fireworks. The natural power which merely completed this lion rock is beginning to break down the form of a lion rock gradually according to that power again. Weathering is also a new problem about the ability of the back to continue maintaining [ in what year ] this form, although it is a natural phenomenon. A place goes from the national highway of the national highway No. 42 line Kumano Shichiri-mihama seashore, and is located in the rightmost end of a beach. Hashikui rock is in along the national highway No. 42 line near Shiono-misaki in Kushimoto-cho, Wakayama. A rock like many pillars suddenly extended toward the sea jumps into an eye. That's right which came to be called Hashikui rock from the place where an about 40 size rock is located in a line like a bridge beam over about 850m in length toward the direction of Kii Oshima on the opposite shore from Kii Peninsula Kushimoto Although there is also a tradition in Hashikui rock and that Kobo Daishi (Kuukai) set to Amanojyaku competition which constructs a bridge in one night toward Kii Oshima,Since it has stopped the hen which tells dawn crying and writing imitation, since Amanojyaku became losing, and Kobo Daishi mistaking with dawn, and making a bridge, it is supposed that such a strange form remained. Since it is a tradition, it is placed, and why was such a strange form done? Hashikui rock is done in the stratum to which volcanic granite porphyry was mixed with the soft stratum made by the muddy rock. From now on, in front of about 15 million years, the igneous activity which is tinged with the heat by magma to the place which the stratum of the rock of the mud called the Kumano layer group around here had deposited happens, volcanic granite porphyry etc. enters at the Kumano layer group, and it dies. Moreover, it appears in surface of the earth, and shortly, the geographical feature which upheaved by this igneous activity is exposed to sea water or a rainstorm, and is eroded. It seems that it is thought rather than a hard rock naturally made by igneous activities, such as granite porphyry, that it remained without corroding only the scattered hard portion of rock, and made oddly shaped rock outcroppings like the present Hashikui rock since the layer of the rock of the mud of the Kumano layer group was deleted early.

Lion rock	The close-up of a lion rock	Dawn of Kii-Katsuura	Sunrise of Kii-Katsuura
Appearance of Marine Day	Sunrise	Sunrise of the Katsuura seashore	The seashore of sunrise
The sea gull which stays at Hashikui rock	Hashikui rock	The group of a sea gull	About Hashikui rock
Hashikui rock	The sea and near Shiono-misaki in Nanki	The blue sea	Distant view Shiono-misaki
The seashore in Nanki	The seashore in Nanki	The sea in Nanki	The rock coastline