Yesterday,we flew 413km south of Okinawa to an island called Ishigaki. It is the second largest of the Yaeyama Islands, a subgroup of the Okinawa archipelago. Here we are that very southern tip of Japan, considerably closer to Taiwan, only 273 Km, than to Kagoshima on the Japanese "mainland" ( over 1000km). The island is only 230 sq km and is very tropical. It is principally a resort island and today we are relaxing at our hotel which has a very nice pool and beachfront.
En route yesterday, we visited a small museum called Yaima Mura that featured early 20th homes that showed the way of the life of pre-WWII "uminchu" (Okninawan dialect for "Kings of the Sea" or fishermen). Interesting but not as much fun as monkeys! The museum had a small "monkey house" as Jack called it. There was a bunch of Bolivian Squirrel Monkeys. Cute but pesky. Given the chance, they were into your pockets or knapsacks looking for scraps of food.
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