Field Journal: Japan’s Winter Wildlife Expedition
Posted by Shirley Metz
in Asia & Pacific and Expeditions
Year 2015 is barely a month old and the third Apex Expeditions’ departure, Japan’s Winter Wildlife expedition, is already underway. The group is led by veteran wildlife experts and expedition leaders, Mark Brazil, Peter Harrison, and Shirley Metz. They have spent several days in the mountainous Chuba region of Honshu Island exploring magical snow-covered forests, steaming thermal pools, and troupes of “snow monkeys.” Two full days were spent photographing, observing, and simply enjoying watching the Japanese Macaques bathe in hot pools, forage, play, and squabble in picture-perfect, winter landscapes.
They are presently on their way south to Arasaki to spend two days at one of the planet’s most celebrated birding spectacles, the winter gathering of 13,000 – 14,000 cranes.
Stay tuned…
Join us on our next Japan Wildlife Tour and see Japan’s magnificent cranes and Snow Monkeys for yourself.
