Paradise Found

This here is Komaka Island. It's about a 15 minute boat ride from the main island of Okinawa. We decided to go check it out. It's uninhabited, about 1/4 mile long, and not much here except for a restroom. Not even a soda machine which was a little dissapointing. But there were other things to make up for it...

 Like amazing scenery,

...and snorkeling... (look closely in the water)

 ...and more scenery. A view from my shady rock overhang.

Ahhhhh, this is the life! were Isaac's first words.

This is pretty cute.

Little Man finally gave in to a nap.

R.O.R. (raugh out roud)...

Typical Japanese beach wear. This photo made up for the no soda machine.

Tadake (Ta Waterfall)

We went on a sweet hike up a river to a waterfall.

Most of the way was walking through the river.

 And more walking through the river.

Along the way, there are several deep pools that you can swim in, and one spot is perfect for jumping in. Check out our two little daredevil girls...

At last the destination... 

Neo Park

Here are some pictures from a place called Neo Park. It's kind of like a zoo. The beginning was quite interesting. After paying a nominal entrance fee, we wandered around a big empty space with no one around until we came to a door as shown below, with a sign posted that read "GO." Hmmm, well so we just open this door and "GO?" What about the giant birds waiting just outside the door? Are they going to stay outside? Come in? Peck our eyes out?

 We finally decided to go for it. Erin was not all that happy to be surrounded by the big birds. But they were pretty harmless, although a bit intimidating. We bought some food to feed them and the big group followed and swarmed us for about the first 100 yards of our journey, before they left us alone.

 Ahh, but then we reached the petting zoo with puppies and all was well and forgiven. This is of course where the bulk of the time was spent.

There were dogs to be walked...

Isaac was stoked to have his own puppy to pet.

And he was really stoked about his first giant tortoise ride!

Overall, Ikey was just stoked about the whole day, as you can tell.