What a great day we had when we took a boat to the tiny Minna Island to go diving. The diving in Okinawa is amazing, even better than in Hawaii, with more varieties of colorful coral, sea anemones and beautiful reef fish. At least half of the fish were different species than we see in Hawaii, and some were the same types of fish with different colors- like the turquoise uhu with a yellow stripe down the side. We saw some familiar creatures: a nenue (chub) spiney lobster, many menpachi that were just like ours but twice the size. Yum! They have a deadly sea snake that we don't have (I saw one brifely while snorkeling) but they are timid and have small mouths so you are not supposed to worry about them.
Sung was really excited to go to Minna Island. What a great day we had!
Sung was really excited to go to Minna Island. What a great day we had!
As you can see, Minna island is quite small. There was a tiny town and a school with 17 students. This is a sign outside the school.
I don't know what we would have done without Sung's help in translating, driving and sharing all sorts of knowledge about Japan. For instance, there is no way I could have filled out this form (see below) to go scuba diving without his help.
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