abstract:Cedar Island is a 10-acre (4 ha) island located in Lake Champlain. It is the southernmost of three islands to the east of South Hero, Vermont.
The mosttypicalnaturallandscapeof YakushimaIsland is its cedar named Yakusugi, the age of which can surpass one thousand years; someof the cedars' diameter can be 5meters.
Hirauchi Kaichu onsen, the tidal pool in which the man and I were poaching, is on Yakushima, an island whose cedar forest earned a spot on Unesco's World Heritage List (and was the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki's anime classic "Princess Mononoke").
Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.