Lots of Fish

Thursday 11/8/2007

Today we started out by heading North to Nago and the large aquarium theme park they have there. The aquarium is one of the biggest in the world and has some HUGE fish. Take a look at some of the awesome pictures on Flickr. We all agreed it was the greatest aquarium we had ever seen. The walls of the aquarium were 2 feet thick clear acrylic. The park also had a neat Ryukyu island style village with Okinawa style houses. At one of the houses they had three old ladies dressed in Okinawan kimonos. They offered us refreshments and we chatted a bit about Okinawan ancestor worship. One of the ladies was showing some girls from mainland how to play the Okinawan shamisen that is like a 3 string guitar.

When we were finished in Nago we headed toward Yomitan and its famous look out spot. When we got there we immediately saw the giant lighthouse. The view was cool and we saw some ppeople surfing. The shore looked treacherous with dried sharp coral but no one appeared to get hurt. We drove a little ways into Okinawa city and Amber had Wendy's for dinner. I decided on the beef bowl from the Japanese fast food place next door. Afterwards, we walked down Gate 2 street and then headed back to the hotel. This was to be our last night in Onna village.