The year 2012 is the end of the world for some but the beginning of a new era for others…
As I drove my car for a few hours and took these photos there was little or no sign of other people and it felt like there was no body but me and the cold sea breeze.
Snow on the Hokkaido coast line
Less than an hours drive from Niseko you can find snow on the beaches.
A snow covered beach in Japan, 24 February 2012
Sea gulls fly infront of the snow covered mountains, 24 February 2012
A rocky snow covered shoreline, 24 February 2012
The snow the beach and the sea, 24 February 2012
Old Japanese fishing boat on a snow covered beach, 24 February 2012
Strange beauty
When the human race is no more all that will be left are traces of our former existence and a baron land.
Sea gulls and crows eating, 24 February 2012
Frozen water falls in Hokkaido, 24 February 2012
Old Japanese wooden house in Hokkaido, 24 February 2012
Old Japanese fishing boat, 24 February 2012
Fishermen's old rubbish on the snow covered beach, 24 February 2012
Barbed wire fence in the snow, 24 February 2012
An old aggregate processing machine in the snow, 24 February 2012
Pebbles on the beach with Mt. Raiden in the background, 24 February 2012
Crows buzzing around the old steel silos, 24 February 2012
