After sixty-one days in Japan I still act very much the tourist, and tourists walk. Today it was to Verny Park, a beautiful piece of landscape art that adorns two-thousand feet of Yokosuka's seafront with grassy areas, rosebushes, leafy trees, fountains, benches, monuments, sculptures, laughing children, a museum and a view worth a million Yen. It's only about a third of a mile walk from the Main Gate. I should have made it out here to this island of serenity surrounded by the busy city long before. From its park benches you can get a good view of the military side of C.F.A.Y. (Commander Fleet Activities Japan) where we live.
Below are pictured submarines of the Japan Self-Defense Forces. If I told you any more than that I'd have to kill you. 
Verny Park is named in honor of Léonce Verny, a French civil engineer who was most instrumental in the planning and construction of Japan's naval arsenal in Yokosuka. From 1865 to 1876 he was under contract to the Japanese government to build a modern naval shipyard and arsenal. The dry docks built by Verny are still in use today by the U.S. Navy. It's quite a story. Click HERE to learn more.
