Daydate Beach & Okinawan Sweet Potatoes

Tori Gate entrance to the parking lot.

Before Chris was leaving Okinawa in November, he was able to get one day off, and as it was a weekday the kids were in school. We decided to go for a drive and have lunch somewhere new. After a bit of driving, we came to the cafe by the beach, but wheat we didn't know was that just next to it, was this big Sweet Potato factory. The Japanese love their purple sweet potatoes, and there is so many different dishes, cakes, sweets, pastries and even ice cream with this flavor. If you see anything purple, it's for sure sweet potato!

We decided to have a look around as we were there anyway and it was neat to see. Beautiful decorations on the building and so well kept everything.

Entrance to the Sweet potato factory and souvenir shop.

 

Especially these sweet potato cakes are very popular here on Okinawa. I really don't like them, but like with everything, taste is different.

View from the cafe.

In summer it's a wonderful place to come and have a drink and enjoy the view, this day was pretty windy and chilly, so we decided to sit inside for our lunch. Still the same view, just not outside!

 Lunch!

The shopping area and souvenir store.

After lunch, we decided to go down to the beach after all for a short walk. It was windy but very beautiful!

Pathway to the beach!

Seeds from a palm tree.

It was a very beautiful beach, and I wish it would have been warmer and not so windy! Still, it was nice to spend some time together and we even tried to get some selfies. It was bright, and not easy to get a good shot, but still, worth the effort.

 My love and I!

Beach Time

Due to the typhoons warnings and stormy weather, we haven't been to the  beach for awhile. We have had a very slow typhoon season here in Okinawa, last summer we had several typhoons, but this season they have all passed us. Lucky for us, not so lucky for poor Taiwan and coast of China that has been slammed lately, with the last couple of typhoons bashing in on them.

We were thinking the whole weekend that we would see more of tyhoon Malakas, that has been back and forth in the radar and making it very unclear if it was supposed to hit Okinawa or not. As far as the predictions were, we weren't going to have school for the kids today on September 19, as it would be the strongest winds and rain coming over us then. During the weekend, we went back to Storm watch meaning that the typhoon more or less have missed us again. We do see some winds and it's dangerous to be close to the coast line as the waves are strong and easily can swipe you out to sea. I saw a videoclip from someone that was out walking his dogs by the seawall, and he was filming waves that were reaching higher than 10 meter reaching in and over the seawall and over to the streets! So it will be no beachtime for us the next couple of days that's for sure!

But, as I haven't shared any beach pictures lately, and I've been too busy this weekend with everything going on to go through my pictures from school etc, so I'm posting these from August, when the sun was shining and no dangerous waves were in sight!