Friday, February 23, 2024

Hello Japan

 It is getting colder now.  We are in ishigaki, Japan the southern most island of Okinawa.  We took a glass bottom boat off the coast and saw some interesting coral, some brilliant blue. A very large turtle swam right up to our boat and of course we saw Nemo. After that I took a long walk through the mangrove here. I love listening to the birds chattering. 

We came back to the ship for lunch and then we were on our own to walk around the town. They have cash machines in the grocery stores so I got $20 of yen 3000!  Most shops take credito cardos.  It started to rain so I returned to the ship. The shopping was not that great anyway. 

I splurged at dinner and got a Bahama Mama that was very tasty. Tonight’s entertainment is a solo trumpeter named CHAW. He is supposed to be really good. Last night a Japanese balloon guy entertained us with all sorts of designs and creatures. 

The ship is getting very rocky again tonight. 

4 comments:

  1. Ah Ha, finally in the outskirts of Japan. You will have quite a few days In Japanese territories. we never really spent any time there. On our way to Thailand one time we stopped over in the Tokyo airport for a while. It seemed to look much like any airport anywhere.

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  2. Wouah, vous visitez différents endroits du Japon.Contente que tu aies affronté les mangroves malgré ton allergie.Ici, le temps est venteux.Et, finalement 1er jour des vacances et 1 ère neige très très tardive de l’hiver.Nos enfants y vont la semaine prochaine.

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  3. Je veux dire neige à la montagne, Benj et sa famille partent aux sports d’hiver.Ron et Mike ont fait une partie de golf mais ils n’ont pas répondu à ma question « And the winner is ??Cela m’a fait beaucoup rire

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