The fourth prefecture

Hello, and welcome to another week's adventure on the lovely and often overlooked island of Shikoku. On Monday the usual crowd (Amberlyn, Kira, Jessica) and I drove out to Tokushima Prefecture: we have now officially been to all four prefectures in Shikoku!
First stop: temple #1 of the 88 temple pilgrimage. Henro (pilgrims) begin their clockwise walk around the island here -- they often refer to Tokushima Prefecture as Hosshin-n0-dojo -- the place to determine to achieve enlightenment.
Next on the list is Naruto Park -- natural whirlpools occur in the currents where the ocean meets the sea -- which is really cool (You can't see it very well in the picture, but under the bridge there are boats near the whirlpools)

This is a picture of the koi flags hanging over Nishi Iya. I'm not sure exactly why they're there, but they're cool, and I took a picture.
This is Biwa-no-taki, a 50-m high waterfall less than a minute's walk away from Kazurabashi -- one of the last three vine bridges in Japan. Warring clans built the bridges to span Nishi Iya and other gorges like it in the canyon so they could cut them down later to prevent attacks, etc.
Here I am on the bridge -- it was pretty wobbly -- but is reinforced with cables. Pretty awesome.