離島出張 Business trip to isolated Islands

11/7～8の日程で、伊豆諸島の島へ出張で行って来ました。
伊豆諸島へ行くのも初めてでしたが、ヘリコプターに乗るのも初めてで
今回は初めてづくしの出張でした。
で、大変だったのは帰り道。
行きは羽田⇒八丈島の便でしたが、帰りは三宅島⇒羽田の飛行機で帰る予定に
していたのですが、三宅島は火山ガスが空港方面に流れてくると飛行機は欠航に
なるらしく、10月以降の冬場は月に2～3便しか飛ばないんだってよ。
そんなん知らんから、普通に何の心構えも無く島に着いてビックリよ。
偶然一緒のヘリに乗ってた方々が親切に、欠航になったらどうしたら良いかを
教えてくれたから良かったけど、そうじゃなかったら路頭に迷ってたわ。
そんな訳で急遽三宅島⇒東京はフェリーに切り替えて、飛行機なら14時に羽田に
着いていたはずが、東京に着いたのは21時。家に着いたのは23時30分でした。
疲れた～・・・。

I was on business trip to the Izu Islands on 7 and 8th Nov.

This is first time to visit Izu Islands and also getting on helicopter so I could have lots of first experiences in this trip.

But on back way, I got big trouble.

In going way, I used fright from Haneda airport to Hachijo Island but on back way, I was planning to use flight from Miyake Island to Haneda airport but the back way flight was canceled because of volcanic gas.

In Miyake Island, if the gas was going to airport, the flight is canceled soon and normally after Oct in winter season, only 2 or 3 flights per month can come to Miyake Island but I didn’t know the kind of information so I was so surprised after reaching at Miyake because I haven’t readied anything in case of flight cancel.

But fortunately, very kind people who got on helicopter with me taught me how I should do when my flight was canceled so I could smoothly change back way getting on ferry.

So original plan was on PM14:00, I could arrive at Haneda airport but flight was canceled and I used ferry so I could reach at Tokyo port on PM21:00 and back home was on PM23:30.

It was so exhausted.