On Saturday, we had a wonderful opportunity to travel around the island with a teacher who has been on Okinawa since 1998. He knew a lot of beautiful places to take us, and we learned a great deal about Okinawan history.
We started out driving near the ocean on the Pacific side of the island. Here are a couple of pictures looking out from some cliffs. It was a bit hazy, so it made it hard to take good pictures.
We were also able to see a lot of farm ground on this drive. In Okinawa they raise a lot of sugar cane and tobacco. There are fields like these in the pictures, but there are also a lot of smaller gardens scattered around the countryside and in towns. There is really no zoning on the island, so you can have farming interspersed about anywhere.
All of the fuel that comes to Okinawa is off-loaded just off the coast and piped to these storage tanks before it is dispersed throughout the country. As you can imagine, gas is pretty expensive here.
There are a lot of cliffs and rocky outcrops on Okinawa because the island is made up of rock and clay. This high cliff was right along a road on which we were driving. If you look closely, you can see that there are
stalactites hanging from the high parts of the cliff.
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