This island has a really good swimming beach, so Tina, Lauren and I spent most of our time on this island swimming in the ocean.
This is me and Lauren feeling calm and happy on a beautiful beach in Okinawa.
This is me, Lauren and Tina getting ready for a swim.
The beach was so clean and inviting. I think this photo captures how beautiful and serene the atmosphere was that day. Everybody was so relaxed, enjoying the beautiful weather and beach.
We hired bikes on this island so that we could get around quicker and more easily, so after spending a long while swimming in the beach, we cycled on to the next beach which was famous for its star sand. This sand is amazing because almost every grain of sand is in the shape of a star. I have never seen anything like it before, but it is beautiful nevertheless. This is what the sand looked like:
These are some people who are searching for the star sand on the shore.
It is so pretty, unique and precious that everyone wants to see it and enjoy it.
We saw a star fish while we were walking through the water which looked quite interesting.
There were many of these blue, tropical fish swimming in the shallow water. They were such a nice colour that we couldn’t resist taking lots of photos of them!
We walked out to a small, rocky island-type thing and spent a while just sitting on the rocks and having a chat. The scenery looked so nice that I could have sat there for hours without getting bored, but I had to worry about getting burnt, too!
This is me, Tina and Lauren on the rocks at the star-sand beach.
Moving on from the star-sand beach, we then went to a small section of the beach which had a jetty you could walk out to.
There was a man playing the shimasen which is a traditional Okinawian snake-skin guitar and it sounded so beautiful and relaxing. I loved listening to the sound of the shimasen while enjoying the scenery.
These strange, black things are actually sea cucumbers. They were absolutely EVERYWHERE in the Taketomi beaches and you really had to look where you were going in case you stepped on one. Anyway, I sat there examining these two particular sea cucumbers for a while and realised that they were moving slightly and blowing bubbles through the water. They look so strange, and many Japanese people enjoy eating them, but I had no desire to try one at that stage! Maybe one day further down the track I will get a bit more game to try!
There were so many hibiscuses on Taketomi and they are such beautiful flowers so that decorated the island well and made it look really colourful.
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Taketomi was a really cool place that I would definitely go back to! The star sand was amazing!
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