| Canceled Yonaguni Island |
Yonaguni Island is crowded with maniac people into Hammerhead Shark in
winter. I would like to visit around September, but southern wind privent us to go undersea monument: undersea ruins. So I changed the priod from September to October. Nevertheless I received a email from the divecenter in late September, that said corona cases spreaded in the island in August. Though I had a PCR test kit that I received before I move to the Tarama Island, and it was canceled after all. They told me the dive center might close all of a sudden by infections. So I decided to cancel visiting to the Yonaguni Island, and changed to the Ishigaki Island. |
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| Summary | I planed to move from the Ishigaki Island to the Yonaguni Island by ferry. I have already booked roundtrip flight to Ishigaki, chage of dates was required. It seemed expensive to change the flight from booking in July to in September. Fortunately, it costed just one thousand yen. |
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| Itinerary | Afternoon flight departing the Kansai Airport by the Peach Aviation. Three days diving and one day sightseeing around there. Morning flight on the way back from Ishigaki, then arriving the Kansai Airport around noon. Hotel price in Ishigaki City fluctuates until a few days before. I was able to book the Mr Kinjo En Ishigaki an inexpensive price. |
| Diving | Uruma Diving Club | 1st day | 1 | Tokakin-Sone | 2 | Nobaru-Sone | 3 | Nobaru-Sone |
| 2nd day | 1 | Nobaru-Sone | 2 | Hatoma West | 3 | Yonara Channel | ||
| 3rd day | 1 | Fairy Basses Reef | 2 | Yonara Channel | 3 | Nobaru-Sone |
| First day of diving, we came across school of dolphins around the Ishigaki
Island. It didn't only pass by the boat, but also swim around the boat for a long time. |
| The dive center located in Ishigaki City, just one dive by the lsland nine
of all: others in the Iriomote and Hatoma Island. There was no Manta Ray at Yonara Channel twice, but there was high probability to come across Manta Ray and school of Barracuda at Nobaru-Sone. In addition, sometimes school of Bigeye Trevally and Yellowback Fusilier. It was very hard to exit due to swell. It felt like at Hin Deang, Thailand to look down Manta Ray in botom. |
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| Taketomi Island |
After three days diving, I planed to visit other island. It 's likely rain by weather forecast, I chose the Taketomi Island. I was able to see patches of blue sky in the morning, but there were big clouds when the boat departed. It was torrential rain when I got to the Kaiji Beach. My body and cloths were going to dry after few hours, if my camera get wet by rain it was going to work. I hid from the rain at shade of the tree about 30 min, dealing my camera by rain. The Kondoi Beach was almost no sea but sand, due to spring and low tide. |
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| Way home | I checked out the hotel in the morning, and headed to the bus stop in the
Art Hotel. Mornig flight by Peach Aviation, getting back to the Kansai Airport past noon. |
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