Japanese Alps Day Two

We were surprised to wake up on Sunday morning to snow. Given that it has been in the 70s in Nagoya the altitude made quite a difference in the weather.
From the Guest House we drove to one of the waterfalls in the park, it wasn't possible to get a good photo of the 40 meter waterfall because the wind was blowing the water at us, but the scene walking to the falls was still pretty amazing.From the park we continued on to Lake Suwa, the area appeared to be a hot spot for tourists complete with swan boats, but I think we were a bit early in the season.
Next to the lake (as in approx 10 meters) is the worlds second tallest Geyser. I wasn't that impressed, but maybe the Geyser was just having an off day.

After the Geyser we moved on to the Suwa Taisha Shrine which had a few Sumo references including this statue.In visiting the shrine we were hoping to find an Easter Island Moai that was supposedly brought to Suwa in the 1600s by the Easter Islanders. We couldn't find the Moai, but we did see a rainbow over the city.