On a fine winter morning, you may see
clouds of vapor rising up from sea or lake water, due to radiative cooling.
Under some meteorological conditions, a thick radiation fog can cover the
neighborhood totally, making familiar landscapes look somewhat like those in a
visionary world. When this happens, you may feel like you were the early bird
that caught the worm.
The innermost inlet of Tatsugo Bay is
home to Tamazato (where I live) and Ura villages and appears to be completely
surrounded by rolling hills, so it looks like a small lake or at most a spacious
pond. Actually, however, it's connected with the East China Sea and fishing
boats are moored to the small jetty.
The pictures here are winter morning
scenes of the inlet.