Sunday

Sunday's outing began with a flat tire on the one and only interstate in Okinawa (called the Expressway). The Expressway is a good example of how everything is "miniature" here... there are only 10 exits and the entire expressway is 57 km or 36 miles long. The speed limit is a whopping 80 km/hr or about 50 miles an hour. And that's, by far and away, the fastest road on the island! After recovering from the flat tire, we ventured out onto some nearby islands for the first time. (If you look on the map a few posts below you can see them out in our bay... past Gushikawa.) We found an excellent beach for gathering shells and took these photos of a couple of fishing boats.