Ishigaki Island

From Naha, we then went by plan to Ishigaki Island. It was a one hour flight and a very smooth one at that. It almost felt like we weren’t even flying but merely sitting inside a stationary plane the entire way! It was a very comfortable flight.

We also got to see the most spectacular view from the plane of the tropical reef in the ocean. It was just beautiful!


Just about every night, we ate a piece of steak.


It was so exciting to be able to eat good quality beef because I hadn’t eaten a nice piece of steak for so long! This was yet another meal that I ate which consisted of lots of meat! YUM!!!

We also ate a piece of chicken steak too, which was equally as delicious. Feast your eyes on this!


In the hotel we stayed at, there was a souvenir section and Lauren, Tina and I were really interested in the rare stones that were only found and produced in Okinawa.


There was a really special stone that was turquoise in colour that we all liked very much. We saw a cool pendant in the shape of a leaf which looked beautiful and it was so nice that we all wanted to buy it. Luckily, there were three more leaf pendants left so Tina, Lauren and I decided that we would all buy one! This is a photo of us with our leaves and the cute little lady who sold it to us. We made friends with her and thought she was so nice!

On our last day at Ishigaki, we went to Maesato Beach.


This was another beautiful, blue beach with crystal clear waters and nice white sand. It was also fenced off so that none of the scary deadly sea creatures could come and hurt us. I felt very safe and enjoyed swimming in this beach.