Okuma and Hedo
Beautiful sand, inviting water, lush greenery and gorgeous sun rays, Okuma has it all. Perfect for a picture taking gal like myself with a new camera. Yes, a spanking, brand new camera. Apparently my other camera cannot behave right and likes to collect dust in the sensor. We took my little baby camera into the camera shop for emergency repairs only to find out my camera would be sent away for about month to receive it's surgery. Me without an camera for a month.... never. I'd rather live with the dust showing up in every picture I take. Okay, not really. After debating when a good time to ship it (umm, never), the wheels in the head started turning and we came up with this scenario. Ship it to camera shop for repairs for a month, get it back, use it for a month, Okinawa = dusty = more dust on the sensor, ship back to camera shop to repair again. Repeat. Not good. Better solution, buy a camera that cleans up after itself (automatic sensor cleaning). And what I'm really getting at is that I've got lots of pictures to share.
We took a little glass bottom boat tour offered by the Okuma resort at a reasonable price . Incredible. We saw Dory (vibrant blue fish) Nemo (clown fish), trigger fish, angel fish, Patrick (star fish) and other fishy fish but we didn't see any Sponge Bobs.
Once back on land, we took a little stroll to check out a look out point on the grounds. We get lost walking as well as driving. We somehow managed to take a wrong turn and ended up going through a cicada forest. Not only are they loud just hanging out, but if you get too close to them they'll come screeching like a mad man at you. Freaky things. But getting lost led us to a secluded little beach area and eventually the look out point. I'll just keep pretending in my head that the real path that goes straight to the look out didn't go by the little beach, because that would be too easy.
Sunday, while we were in between checkout and check-in times for the Studio to Suite room, we drove up to Hedo Point. Many, many things to look out for on the drive to Hedo Point ...
On the one day in many, many years (probably something like ten), I didn't try to maintain my half straight, half wavy and always frizzed out hair, I run into someone from Blogland.
I'm know some of you have heard of Robin's story: her father was stationed in Okinawa when she was a teenager, and being the lovely little paradise that Okinawa is, it lured Robin back. She's now spending three weeks exploring Okinawa and soaking in all it has to offer. Her story is amazing, which isn't surprising because she really is an amazing person. I loved that my girls got to met Robin and see her living her dream. A fantastic role model and a very sweet lady.
A picture of our family that the sweet Mrs. Robin took (crazy hair and all).