there is a sense of surreal within our minds. we may be in one of those travel postcards, kazuto sometimes mentions. tokyo feels so long ago. anyway, happy one month. we are surviving!
one of the cool things we recently found about living in okinawa is that you can go for a little getaway anytime. if you drive, say for an hour, you are fully enveloped by the wild. there, you can experience a new world. isn't that fantastic!
it's sunday and kazuto and i went for an afternoon drive. kouri-island, located in the northern part of mainland okinawa and further north of yagaji-island was where we wanted to go. checked on google maps that it's only an hour drive. good!
look at yagaji bridge, which connects the mainland and yagaji island. the emerald ocean was beathtaking.
hello, mr. hermit crab. so tiny.
another one rushing towards the water. running away from my camera was what he was doing probably. heeeyyy, come baaaacckkk!
after crossing the yagaji bridge, we arrived to yagaji island - a vast land of sugar cane fields. everything felt so earthy with deep greens and a smell of dirt. driving on yagaji island was a fantastic experience.
soon later, we crossed the second bridge of the day: kouri bridge. then we arrived to kouri island, which is a small island of 8km in circumfrence. we drove around the island in circle and circle and circle.
looking over yagaji island from kouri island. we definately wanna come back.
our next destination was nago city. we came here once by bus to go to churaumi aquarium. but today was our first to walk around.
this is nago civic center. the building was humungus and interestingly designed.
in downtown nago. this is the famous hinpun gajumaru, which is a big old banyan tree as old as 300 years old. standing in front of it, we felt holy!
until our next getaway!
