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.