After our stop at Hedo Point, we decided to drive back around the island, following the East coast south, as we drove the West Coast up north. Such a beautiful drive, and this turtle stop was so impressive, this was concrete as a roof over a picnic area. It was a lot of bushes and high grass around it, so no kids were allowed to step out as I was scared to see any snakes. No snakes and a picture later, we continued. We had packed our beach bag in the morning, thinking if opportunity is there, we would stop somewhere at a nice beach. Well, we didn't have to wait very long, as there were gorgeous views all over!
We saw this beach from afar, or I should say we were driving closer to the water and there were beaches everywhere, but not easy access and with narrow roads, you can't just park at the street either. So we continued driving looking for a way to park nearby, to stop there. It was a private house by the side of the road that had this as it's backyard!! What a wonderful place to live! A very old local man stepped out, didn't speak a word of English and Chris asked if it was alright for us to park there and go down to the beach. The man asked for 1000Yen, and we paid. Not too much when one consider that we got this wonderful beach to ourselves for about 2 hours, before we continued our road trip. If we could have understood each other, we probably could have paid much less, considering that we weren't going to park at his property all day, but no need for discussions.
I should have taken a picture of the house, it was to the very left in the picture where the little green hill is seen, and grass was mowed. It wasn't nice by any means, most houses here aren't, but the view!!! My goodness, who wouldn't want to live here??
Ben and Chris went treasure hunting and exploring,
while I helped Isabella change into her swimsuit. Cassie was too
occupied taking her own pictures and choose to not get into the water.
The water looks almost brown, but it is actually just so clear, that it's the sand that you see. We had overcast most of the time we were there, but I'm sure that in direct sunlight, it would shimmer in the turquoise color that we see here so often. Out behind the cliffs, there were huge waves slamming in, and they got weaker and came rolling into the beach too. But like it is with a lot of beaches here, you can walk until you can't walk any further, as it's so much sand. Not knowing at all what lurks under water, I put water shoes on for the kids, as I don't want them to step on any poisonous see urchins. It was warm in the water! Really warm!!
I heard on the radio here recently, that it's about 33 degrees Celsius in the ocean waters by Okinawa at this time of the year, and that's one of the reasons why the Typhoons grow stronger out in the ocean, feeding off on the warm surface water. We have two Typhoons lurking around to the East of us right now, so we will see if the first one hit us or pass tomorrow or Monday..
Someone has gotten a good suntan this summer, look at those white feet!
Love these rocks!
I'm
not even standing in the very end of one side of the beach, and it
continues around the bend up to the very right side of this picture and
even further. So long and so empty. There are so many of these beaches,
with nobody on them, you can totally find your own little spot, and not
having to get into the crowds. You just have to be aware of the things
inside the waters though, and where there is no net, there could be box
jelly fish, venomous with a painful sting!! So far, we haven't seen any!
Cassie even got pictures of us!!
