Journeys for Knowledge

For the first time in my 4 years in Okinawa, I visited a Ryuku island other than Okinawa. Zamami island is a common destination, just a couple hours by ferry from Naha. Although gloomy clouds sent us off from the port, the skies parted by the afternoon revealing gorgeous islands just west of Okinawa. The island itself is incredibly small, but for the next two days we explored all the nooks and crannies it presented.

Most of the time the weather was quite calm, but on the one day we scheduled to go whale watching, a rain storm kept us trapped in our cabins all morning and afternoon. We did our best to salvage the sunset hours and evening stars, but by the time we returned home it was clear a second visit, with better weather, was absolutely necessary.